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Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. ... Common elements of general quackery include questionable diagnoses using questionable diagnostic tests, as well as untested or refuted treatments, especially for serious diseases such as cancer.
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A quack doctor: "Running after quacks and mountebanks for medicines and remedies" by Daniel Defoe
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- In the essay titled "Running after quacks and mountebanks for medicines and remedies" the great writer Daniel Defoe satirises the quacks.
- The essay had been published in "A Journal of the Plague Year".
- In this essay, Defoe specifically categorises the self-proclaimed doctors as 'quacks'.
- He asserts that these men were nothing less than charlatans.
- They claimed to be great doctors, who knew the use and effects of every medicine, could cure every disease but did not possess a single degree of Medicine.
- The quacks were all impostors and were cheating the unsuspecting patients.
- They were cheaters like the 'alchemists' as had been so satirically portrayed by playwright Ben Jonson in his play 'The Alchemist'.
- The quacks according to Defoe were boastful, arrogant, unethical and conceited.
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