quack medicine

collocation in English

meaningsofquackandmedicine

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quack
noun[C]
uk
/kwæk/us
/kwæk/
disapproving
a person who dishonestly pretends to have medical skills ...
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medicine
noun
uk
/ˈmed.ɪ.sən/us
/ˈmed.ɪ.sən/
treatment for illness or injury, or the study ...
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(Definition ofquackandmedicinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This ailment cannot be cured by politicalquackmedicine.
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There are areas that leave a lot to be desired, such as small advertisements,quackmedicineadvertisements, even loan advertisements.
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Simpson suggests that the new management had failed to grasp the fact that vigorous advertising was essential to success in the field ofquackmedicine.
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The tax may be a good or bad one, but all proprietary medicines are not necessarily quack medicines.
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This tax was originally, and is still, in principle, a tax on quack medicines.
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After all, we already have remedies against quack medicines.
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He has been attacked personally as being a charlatan peddling quack medicines.
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I am not sure whether more trade is done in quack medicines by speeches in this connection than by the printed word.
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They would be like a vain woman who, in an attempt to get rid of a few grey hairs, was prepared to swallow quack medicines and poison her whole system.
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I hope they will not come in a self-righteous spirit, because the vigilance which they extend to cancer advertisements does not extend to advertisements of other quack medicines.
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This was mirrored by similar growth in marketing of quack medicines elsewhere in the world.
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These eventually gained reputations as quack medicines.
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