Quack+medicine
131mountebank — n charlatan, quack, quack doctor, quacksalver, Archaic. empiric; pretender, imposter, impersonator, Sl. ringer; sham, shammer, bluff, bluffer, Inf. phony; huckster, pitchman, snake oil man, medicine man, fast talker, Sl. spieler, Sl. hot air… …
132toad — [OE] Toad is a mystery word, with no known relatives in any other Indo European language. Of its derivatives, toady [19] is short for the earlier toad eater ‘sycophant’ [17]. This originated in the dubious selling methods of itinerant quack… …
