• (RP) IPA: /ˈkwæksælvə/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈkwæksælvɚ/

quacksalver (plural quacksalvers)

1. (archaic) One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skill#Noun|skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc., supposedly having curative power#Noun|powers; a quack. [from c. 1570]
   • 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Peveril of the Peak. [...] In Four Volumes, volume IV, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685 ↗, page 63 ↗:

     "My fortune," said the Duke, "is too vast to be hurt by a petty wound; and I have, as thou knowest, a thousand salves in store for the scratches and scars which it sometimes receives in greasing my machinery." / "Your Grace does not mean Dr Wilderhead's powder of projection?" / "Pshaw! he is a quacksalver and mountebank."

• medicaster (dated)
• quack

• quackery
• quacky
• charlatan

• French: charlatan, marchand d'orviétan, médicastre
• German: Quacksalber
• Italian: ciarlatano
• Portuguese: charlatão
• Russian: шарлата́н
• Spanish: charlatán, curandero