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geoffb | 19:39 Thu 18th Jan 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Why are doctors refered to as Quacks ??

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It's short for quacksalver which means someone who boasts about what he doesn't have (from Dutch).
.. or boasts about his salves (remedies)
I thought it was because they were duckters !!!!
or treating mallardies!
aparrotly you're all mad!! :O)
geoff
its to do with an instrument used by a doctor shaped like a ducks beak sorry i cant remember what the instrument was called but i think it was used round the head area hence quackers
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