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Scrofula

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  • Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.
  • A pharmaceutical chemist demonstrating the effect of Pectoral San Andres on the lungs. Colour lithograph.
  • Baldwin's Sarsaparilla and Peruvian Bark: advertisement. Lithograph, 19--.
  • Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de des plantas de Nueva-España : especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso, y de otras graves enfermedades. Que resisten al uso del mercurio, y demas remedios conocidos ...  / Por ... Don Francisco Xavier Bálmis.
  • Queen Mary performing the Royal Touch. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916.
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    To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty: the humble petition of divers hundreds of the Kings poore subjects, afflicted with that grievous infirmitie, called the Kings evill : Of which by his Majesties absence they have no possibility of being cured, wanting all meanes to gaine accesse to his Majesty, by reason of His abode at Oxford.

    | Date: Febr. 20. Anno Dom. 1643
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    Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs : together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors ; and the mammary-abscesses, and sore nipples of lying-in women / [Michael Underwood].

    Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820. | Date: 1788
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    Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

    Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841. | Date: 1822
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    A treatise on the nature of scrofula : in which an attempt is made to account for the origin of that disease on new principles; illustrated by various facts and observations explanatory of a method for its complete eradication; together with an appendix, containing several interesting cases. / By William Farr.

    Farr, William, active 1820. | Date: 1820
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    St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.

    | Reference: 38748i
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