Quacksalver

The quacksalver’s quicksilver cure-- slathering a salt salve or quaffing mercury-- might sound like quatsch, a bad wine of qually quality, but remember a time when faith aligned with alchemy, before the querical became the enemy of the clerical, the quisquous nature of faith mirrored that viscous commodity; when quiddities were not quisby oddities and to quop and quob before mysteries did not portend holy querimony but recognition of the quintessence divine.