Not unlike the potentially explosive potions players brew in-game, The Quacks of Quedlinburg has managed to bottle contained chaos into a mystifyingly unique tabletop experience. The award-winning ...

Quack doctors -- the so-called snake oil salesmen often depicted with derision today -- not only plied their trade effectively, they left an indelible mark on marketing, reports Charles Osgood on CBS ...

The classic definition of a "quack" -- dating as far back as the 1500s -- is a medical charlatan, a "fraudulent pretender to medical skills." Derived from the old Dutch kwakzalver, or hawker of salves ...

RORY Kinnear and Rupert Everett star in a new BBC sitcom that aims to have you in stitches – without anaesthetic. Imagine having a medical complaint needing surgery and discovering that the “theatre” ...

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April 4 -- The following excerpt comes from Quack!: Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, the new book from author Bob McCoy. Buy your copy of Bob McCoy's new book ...

Alannah Tomkins receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, but not in connection with the research promoted in this article. The Victorian doctors portrayed in new BBC series, ...

“When parents cannot afford to send a child to the school, they send him either to an auto workshop or a clinic. With the passage of time, they graduate as mechanics and doctors, respectively”.