After World War I, though, the basic territorial pattern of the Balkans was set. Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, and Albania were independent countries and, with some exceptions, occupied their current borders. Today's countries of Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia were then part of Yugoslavia--a new country formed in 1918.
verb (used with object), undermined, undermining. 1. to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect. 2. to attack by indirect, secret, or underhand means; attempt to subvert by stealth. 3. to make an excavation under; dig or tunnel beneath, as a military stronghold.
Health fraud is often used as a synonym for quackery, but quackery's salient characteristic is its more aggressive promotion (quacks quack!).  Pseudo-medicine  is a term for treatments known to be ineffective, regardless of whether their advocates themselves believe in their effectiveness.uackery is the promotion of false and unproven health schemes for a profit. It is rooted in the traditions of the marketplace, with commercialism overwhelming professionalism in the marketing of alternative medicine.