quack remedy

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The Romans of old, who drove nails into the walls of the Temple of Jupiter, in the hope of warding off the Plague, employed thereby a quack remedy.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means

The once blithe-hearted and enlightened Gertrude was changing into an irritable, superstitious woman, whose whole time was given to experimenting upon her ailment with every quack remedy she came across. 

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas

For going from one quack remedy to another?

From Septimus by Locke, William John

One must create an impression, if only with a quack remedy.

From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William

All its failings, infinitely more complicated than those of the body, were grouped as "sin," and for these there was one quack remedy.

From Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott by Rutherford, Mark