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Quack
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QUACK. One, who, without sufficient knowledge, study or previous preparation, and without the diploma of some college or university, undertakes to practice medicine or surgery, under the pretence that he possesses secrets in those arts.
     2. He is criminally answerable for his unskillful practice, and also, civilly to his patient in certain cases. Vide Mala praxis; Physician.



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To be sure, the Times also rightly assails the assorted touchy-feely quackeries that pass for education theory these days, as implicated in this education disaster.
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