quackery
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Noun
quackery (countable and uncountable, plural quackeries)
- (law, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
- Synonym: empiricism (in a dated sense of that word)
- Coordinate terms: alternative medicine, complementary medicine, integrative medicine; folk medicine, traditional medicine
- 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, , →JSTOR, page 763:
- When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.
- (countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
Quotations
- 1772, Edmund Burke, ed, The Annual Register:
- His intentions were admirable, and his quackery had in view the public good; [...]
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