quacksalver

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To Johnson, a flatterer was a "claw-back"; a bad doctor, a "quacksalver."

From Time Magazine Archive

I have only to add that the union of the poisoner, the quacksalver, the alchemist, and the astrologer in the same person was familiar to the pretenders to the mystic sciences.

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir

"In other words," said Tressilian, "you were Jack Pudding to a quacksalver."

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir

"Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar."

From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir

I have done ill to unbosom myself so far to this poisonous quacksalver.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir