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Quack

Quack, a person who does not have knowledge of a particular system of medicine but practises in that system is a quack and a mere pretender to medical knowledge or skill, or to put it differently, a charlatan, Poonam Verma v. Ashwin Patel, AIR 1996 SC 2111: (1996) 4 SCC 332 (348)....


Quack

The cry of the duck or a sound in imitation of it a hoarse quacking noise...


Charlatan

One who prates much in his own favor and makes unwarrantable pretensions a quack an impostor an empiric a mountebank...


Empirically

By experiment or experience without science in the manner of quacks...


Medicaster

A quack...


Merry andrew

One whose business is to make sport for others a buffoon a zany especially one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor...


Mountebank

One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place boasts of his skill in curing diseases and vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies a quack doctor...


Quackery

The acts arts or boastful pretensions of a quack false pretensions to any art empiricism...


Quack grass

See Quitch grass...


Quackish

Like a quack boasting characterized by quackery...


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