QUACK  , one who pretends to knowledge of which he is ignorant, a See also:

• CHARLATAN (Ital. ciarlatano, from ciarlare, to chatter)

charlatan, particularly a medical impostor . The word is a shortened See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of " quacksalver " (Du. kwaksalver), in which form it is See also:

• COMMON

common in the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, "See also:

• SALVER

salver" meaning " healer," while " quack " (Du. kwakken) is merely an application of the onomatopoeic word applied to the sounds made by a See also:

• DUCK

duck, i.e. gabble or gibberish . In See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, to See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call a medical practitioner a " quack " is actionable per se without See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of See also:

• SPECIAL

special damage (See also:

• ALLEN, BOG OF
• ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
• ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
• ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
• ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
• ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
• ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
• ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)

Allen v . See also:

• EATON, DORMAN BRIDGMAN (1823-1899)
• EATON, MARGARET
• EATON, THEOPHILUS (c. 15go-1658)
• EATON, WILLIAM (1764-1811)
• EATON, WYATT (1849-1896)

Eaton (163o), r See also:

• ROLL (O. Fr. rolle, roulle, mod. role, Lat. rotulus, dim. of rota, wheel)
• ROLL, ALFRED PHILIPPE (1846– )

Roll . Abs . 54) . The often-quoted legal See also:

• DEFINITION (Lat. definitio, from de-finire, to set limits to, describe)

definition of a " quack " is " a boastful pretender to medical skill," but a " quack " may have See also:

• GREAT

great skill, and it is the claim to cure by remedies which he knows have no efficacy which makes him a " quack " (see Dakhyl v . Labouchere, The Times, 29th of See also:

• JULY

July 1904, and 5th and 9th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1907) .