Quacksalver

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quacksalver \Quack"sal*ver\, n. [D. kwakzalver; cf. kwakzalven
     to quack or boast of one's salves. See {Quack}, {Salve}, n.]
     One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of
     the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a
     mountebank. [Obs.] --Burton.
     [1913 Webster] Quad