[Our English _Quack_, or _Quacksalver_ as it was originally
written, is from the German _Quacksalber_, or rather the Dutch
_Kwaksalver_; which Bilderdijk, in his _Geslachtlijst der
Naamwoorden_, states should be more properly _Kwabzalver_
(Iatroliptes), from _Kwab_, a wen, and _zalver_, to salve or
anoint.]
_Dr. Hieron Mercurialis._--Who was Dr. Hieron Mercurialis, the author of
a book having the following title: _Medicina Practica, seu de
cognoscendis, discernendis, et curandis, omnibus humani corporis
affectibus, earumque causis indagandis_?