Quackery


Itinerant quacks (quacksalvers, charlatans, medicine shows, snake oil salesmen etc.) who sometimes performed their task on a stage, which made the medical procedure also an attraction for viewers.

See also: Tooth-pullers

Link: Wikipedia

Quackery Front Text: "Doktor Eisenbarth-Spiele, Viechtach, Bayer. Wald", titles on woodcut: "Der wolberedte Artzt.", "Der lustige Pickelhering."
Reverse Text: "Der hochprivilegierte Medicus und Operator H. , Joh. Andr. Eisenbarth aus Viechtach unweit Regensburg bürtig zeiget dort alljährlich sommerszeiten auf öffentlichem Theatrum seltsame und gar rare Proben seiner weltberühmten chirurgischen Kunst. Festpostkarte der Doktor Eisenbarth-Spiele nach einem kolorierten Holzschnitt aus dem Jahre 1659."
Publisher: Zerreiss & Co., Nürnberg
Type: 20th-century reproduction of a 1689 woodcut
Size: Modern
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Quackery Picture: 19th-century painting by Georg Bermann from the facade of the half-timbered Knochenhaueramthaus in Hildesheim, Germany
Front Text: "Windbrettbilder vom Knochenhaueramthaus zu Hildesheim", inscription: "Die Welt will betrogen sein"
Reverse Text: "Hildesheim"
Publisher: Verlag des Verkehrsvereins Hildesheim; Graphische Kunstanstalt J. G. Huch & Co., G. m. b. H., Braunschweig
Type: early 20th-century reproduction of a 19th-century painting; Divided Back
Size: Classic
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Quackery Picture: charlatan in a French village
Front Text: "Un charlatan au village"
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: from Alençon to Moulins-la-Marche (France), 1908

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