Charlatans

Q.S., Q.-S., abbret. (Quecksilbersaule) mercury column (Quecksilberstand) mercury level, quabbeln, jj.t. shake, quiver be flabby. Quacksalber. m. quack, charlatan. 

Nonetheless, it was not until 1793 that the English scientist and clergyman Joseph Priestley discovered the first modern inhalant compound, the anesthetic gas nitrous oxide. This gas was widely used for recreational purposes by the English aristocracy in private parties, and traveling charlatans expanded... 

Francesco, Grete de.The power of the charlatan translated from the German by Miriam Beard. Translated by Miriam Beard. New Haven (NH) Yale Univ P, 1939. viii,... 

Corkhill, Alan. Charlatanism in Goethe s Faust I md Tieck s William Lovell. Forum Mod Lang Studs 42, no. 1 (2006) 80-92. 

While Bolton s lecture gave examples of modern alchemical charlatans and seemed less than serious about some of the French Hermetic groups he discussed, the New York Times coverage of the speech focused primarily on the positive issue of modern science s relationship to alchemy. Its headline The Revival of Alchemy was followed by the subheadlines Dr. H. Carrington Bolton Lectures on the Modern Aspect of Chemistry s Forerunner and Many Still Believe in It (New York Times 1897, 6). 

Do I think a person like her, who can come up with such a farfetched diagnosis of a situation, is arrogant and dangerous Absolutely. A lot of people who are sick with MCS have been misled by charlatans. Therefore, the illness itself has been minimized and discounted. 

Franklin Martin, the pioneer of the electrochemical treatment (ECT) of tumors,2 became a major force in the development of surgery in America however, towards the end of his life, he regretted that treatments with electricity had fallen into the hands of quacks and charlatans and therefore into disrepute.7 As was stated in 1991 by Watson 7 Even today this area of research is not favoured by grant-giving bodies and is viewed from the same perspective of disbelief. Also, the lack of easy availability of well-controlled and calibrated power supplies, ammeters and voltmeters—and thus the definition of optimum electrolytic conditions—at the end of nineteenth century, caused electrolytic burns and other failures in some patients so that the technique was never integrated into the routine clinical practice. 

Paracelsus - Genius or Charlatan Sixth Annual Lecture Series in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1962-63. University of Texas, College of Pharmacy, Austin, 1963, pp. 4-12. Reprinted in Texas J. Pharmacy, 5 (1964). Reprinted in AJI, The Physical Universe, 2nd edn., 1964, pp. 33-38, and subsequent editions. 

His enemies called him a coarse, shallow charlatan, but he d somehow survived the harsh eraser of history. You can still see Cagliostro today in science fiction movies like Spawn or in dramatic costume movies like The Affair of the Necklace. At least half a dozen films have been made about his life—in Russia, in America, in Germany, in Italy, and in France. In the last two countries, he still features in television cartoons, comics, pop music, and pulp novels. More highbrow consumers encounter him as Sarastro in Mozart s famous opera The Magic Flute, or in Johann Strauss s operetta Cagliostro in Wien. 

An enlightening account of the career of one of the most famous charlatans of the eighteenth century. Adeptly researched and written with a light, charming touch. —Publishers Weekly... 

Bernard Trevisan, a French count of the fifteenth century, squandered enormous sums of money in the search for the Stone, in which the whole of his life and energies were engaged. He seems to have become the dupe of one charlatan after another. 

As the king said to Mozart, "So there you have it." Madman, a creature of my fevered imagination, a charlatan, or the tip of a Nazi iceberg of scheming dreamers To this I have no answer. That s how it is with the cosmic giggle. 

Amen, I said. We were making fast time along the Grand Canal and would be at San Remo in a few moments. It was time to counterattack. And now you and sier Bernardo are worried that donna Alina will fall into the hands of a charlatan clairvoyant, who will milk her of thousands of ducats by preying on her obsession to prove her son s innocence ... 

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