one who falsely pretends to knowledge of medicine
• (n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
Quack'sal·ver noun [ Dutch kwakzalver ; confer kwakzalven to quack or boast of one's salves. See Quack , Salve , noun ] One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. ...
a quack doctor. · a charlatan.