quackery

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Noun

quackery (countable and uncountable; plural quackeries)

1. (law, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
2. (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; [...]

Related terms

• quack

Translations

the practice of fraudulent medicine

• Armenian: շառլատանություն (hy) (šaṙlatanutʿyun)
• Chinese (traditional): 庸醫的醫術, 庸医的医术 (yōngyī de yīshù)
• Dutch: kwakzalverij f
• Finnish: puoskarointi
• French: charlatanisme (fr) m
• German: Quacksalberei (de) f
• Greek: αγυρτεία (el) (agyrteía) f
• Icelandic: skottulækningar (is) f pl
• Italian: frode medica f

• Japanese: 偽医療 (にせいりょう, niseiryō)
• Korean: 엉터리 치료 (eongteori chiryo)
• Latin: pharmacopolia f
• Polish: znachor m
• Portuguese: curandeirismo (pt) m
• Russian: шарлатанство (ru) (šarlatánstvo) n
• Spanish: curandería f, curanderismo m
• Swedish: kvacksalveri c

See also

• fraud