once called quack-salver. A puffer of salves. (Swedish, quak-salfvarë Norwegian, quak-salver; German, quacksalber.)
“Saltimbancoes, quacksalvers, and charlatans deceive the vulgar.”—Sir Thomas Browne.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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