quackery

Definition

The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.

Etymology

From quack + -ery.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "[…] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]"

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