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King's Evil

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  • By the King : A proclamation for adiouring the Terme [on account of the plague; also forbidding any citizen from seeking the royal touch as a cure for the King's Evil. 9 Sept. 1630].
  • By the King : A proclamation for adiouring the Terme [on account of the plague; also forbidding any citizen from seeking the royal touch as a cure for the King's Evil. 9 Sept. 1630].
  • The king's evil / by Raymond Crawfurd.
  • By the King : A proclamation for adiouring the Terme [on account of the plague; also forbidding any citizen from seeking the royal touch as a cure for the King's Evil. 9 Sept. 1630].

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    Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.

    Browne, John, 1642-approximately 1700. | Date: 1684
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    The Royal Touch / [John Lister].

    Lister, John, 1920-2013. | Date: 1985
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    The royal touch : sacred monarchy and scrofula in England and France / translated by J.E. Anderson.

    Bloch, Marc, 1886-1944. | Date: [1973]
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    M0010336: Charles II touching for the King's Evil, or scrofula, 1684

    | Date: 21 November 1947 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/91/24
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    Physico-chyrurgical treatises of the gout, the Kings-Evil and the lues venerea. ... To which is added an essay of the reason of intermitting fevers, and the effects of the cortex Peru / [Richard Boulton].

    Boulton, Richard, 1676 or 1677- | Date: 1714

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Therapeutic Touch
England
United Kingdom
France
History of Medicine
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