Word: quack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egyptian papyrus of 1600 B. C., owned by the Society, the oldest scientific book in America. The roll is over 15 feet long, 13 inches high, and written on both sides. It deals with the medical and surgical practice of the Egyptians. The author was not a quack or magician, but a serious medical scholar. The deciphering of the papyrus by Dr. Breasted was made doubly difficult by technical terminology, used by medicoes then...
...OUTSIDER-Sometimes theatrical, but vitally acted. A satisfactory picture of the quack who made the doctors quake...
Percy Hammond: "Scientifically, The Outsider is, as Mr. Dempsey would say, 'the bunk.' . . . But Mr. Atwill is gorgeous as the quack-doctor; and Miss Cornell's realization of the passionate lame girl seems a perfect thing. I suspect she knows more about honest acting than any of the other actors of today...
...American scholar for whom I have great respect, thought he has long been forgotten, has well said: The young man who is an enthusiastic student of Plato can never be a sciolist in regard to education, a quack in literature, a demagogue in politics, or an infidel in religion...
...Andrew's Hospital, London, where some marvelous work of this nature has been done. Facial surgery is attracting wide attention in America because of the activities of Dr. Henry J. Shireson, Chicago surgeon who reconstructed the nose of Fanny Brice, vaudeville actress, but who was subsequently dubbed "nose quack" and was "chased out of New York" by the Daily News (TIME...