(n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many quacksalvers earned their living by treating such patients with a scalp incision, pretending to remove a stone.
Salver
Definition:
(n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack.
(n.) A salvor.
(n.) A tray or waiter on which anything is presented.
Example Sentences:
(1) At one stage he bred budgerigars, and while travelling back on the train from a fixture against Birmingham City, White and Jones, the two practical jokers in the team, stole uniforms from two waiters in the dining car and appeared in front of him with a lidded serving salver.
(2) After the presentations, Sharapova seemed overwhelmed to be holding the silver salver that was first presented in 1886, two years after the first women's championship.
(3) A double funk by David Miliband, and an Alan Johnson waiting for others to hand it to him on a silver salver will show the current bunch to be at best cowardly and dithering, and at worst putting career before party.