What's the difference between medicine and quack?

Medicine


Definition:

  • (n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
  • (n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
  • (n.) A philter or love potion.
  • (n.) A physician.
  • (v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
  • (3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
  • (4) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (5) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (6) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (7) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (8) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
  • (9) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (10) Silufol plates can be used for the control of the production of vitamins, their analysis in varying biological objects, as well as in biochemistry, medicine and pharmaceutics.
  • (11) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
  • (12) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
  • (13) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
  • (14) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
  • (15) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
  • (16) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
  • (17) Yet very little research information or published material is available on the extent of utilization behaviour of Siddha medicine in urban settings.
  • (18) While medicine must respond to those who enter that house, it is the social level at which we must be the architects of change.
  • (19) Questions received by the center have covered all facets of animal medicine and management.
  • (20) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.

Quack


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
  • (v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
  • (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
  • (n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
  • (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
  • (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
  • (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The agency has worked with other authorities to move against quack AIDS products and to educate the public concerning this health fraud.FDA hopes that through all these efforts it can help researchers in government, academia, and industry advance the development, testing, and review of safe and effective therapies, preventatives,and diagnostics for AIDS and related conditions.
  • (2) The FPC has neither, so it risks just going quack- quack on a murky pond," he said.
  • (3) Never mind that it muddies the debate (the Le Pen dynasty and the millionaire Nigel Farage somehow turn out to be the real victims in all this) and trivialises the very people to whom the quack is pretending to genuflect.
  • (4) A collection of poems by his widow Karen Green, entitled Bough Down, won praise earlier this year , and Quack This Way , a tribute from his friend Bryan A Garner was published this month.
  • (5) Their ruling will help young people Duncan Smith's department had pushed into quack schemes on pain of losing their benefit.
  • (6) No politician can keep a promise to bring back jobs – especially not Donald Trump Read more Like all good quack analysis, it is instantly digestible, it makes little demands of its audience: no scouring of footnotes nor leafing through history.
  • (7) Brome, western wheat, and quack grasses demonstrated RAST inhibition patterns similar to the northern grasses.
  • (8) Mega-projects have become the quack remedies of modern politics.
  • (9) But it isn't only quack journals that have failures in peer review.
  • (10) We are taught to bark like dogs, quack like ducks around the same time we are learning the words for mummy and daddy.
  • (11) The policy quacks urge us to breezeblock the greenbelt.
  • (12) These objects include radium in devices which were used by legitimate medical practitioners for legitimate medical purposes such as therapy, as well as a wide variety of "quack cures."
  • (13) It was a quick political fix, a quack’s remedy that seemed to deal with the symptoms in the short term when it was really just aggravating the causes.
  • (14) If this is not double-dip recession it is certainly starting to walk, talk and quack like one.
  • (15) State media alleged that in pursuit of profits, Baidu had allowed its online health forums to become “flooded with quacks and advertisements for unlicensed hospitals”.
  • (16) Cue Baxter’s own recollection of her angst about the jab, which concluded with the claim that some parents were “being used by a quack and a fraud”.
  • (17) The structure of sinistrin from red squill (Urginea maritima) was determined by methylation analysis and 13C NMR spectroscopy, using the fructans from Pucinella peisonis and quack-grass (Agropyron repens) as reference substances.
  • (18) George Orwell berated them as "fruit juice drinkers, nudists, sex maniacs, Quakers, nature-cure quacks, pacifists and feminists", while others have, outrageously, labelled them Guardian writers and readers.
  • (19) For Robert De Niro to use the platform of his internationally known film festival to lend credibility to a quack peddling toxic misinformation about autism is, among other things, a flagrant abuse of power and privilege – yes, white power and privilege.
  • (20) He doesn’t look particularly comfortable, writes resident Guardian quack Dr Murray, who has no clue whatsoever if he’s being honest.