An ignorant or underqualified medical practitioner; a quack.

A practitioner of medicine who lacks academic training and qualifications; a practitioner of traditional or folk medicine. Now historical.

A person who follows no method; spec. an untrained or unqualified physician; a quack. Cf. amethodical, adj.

One who relies on experiment; an empiric.

A physician or medical practitioner of a school of thought originating in ancient Greece and Rome and holding that treatment should be based on…