1 a person who dishonestly pretends to have medical skills or knowledge --
2 the sound that a duck makes --
4 a person who falsely pretends to have medical skills or knowledge --
If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, the chances are that it is probably a duck.
It was to the profit of the quack the longer he kept a man diseased.
The year 1985 was about tranquillisers, and about remedies—frequently quack remedies—for minor ailments with self-limiting symptoms: coughs and colds, and mild and moderate pain.
All the more pity that he has decided to turn himself into a third rate political charlatan peddling his quack remedies.
There are among the almost 30,000 quacks and bogus therapists offering their services.
The fraudulent quack can probably be dealt with now under the criminal law.
The tax may be a good or bad one, but all proprietary medicines are not necessarily quack medicines.
Many of the ancient quack remedies were stuffed with lead components that had a disastrous corrosive effect.
