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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.

Charles II touching a patient for the king's evil (scrofula) surrounded by courtiers, clergy and general public. Engraving by R. White.

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.

Queen Mary I touching the neck of a boy for the King's evil (scrofula). Watercolour by M.S. Lapthorn, 1911, after a watercolour, 16th. century.

Front and reverse of four coin-like objects known as 'royal touch pieces' which were given by royal personages to people suffering from the king's evil (scrofula). Etching.

Moxibustion chart: the zhoujian points, ink drawing, Chinese

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.

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].

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

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.

M0018276: Browne: <i>Adenochoiradelogia</i>, 1684: tile page / M0018277: Portrait of John Browne (1642-1702) / M0018278: King Charles II touching for scrofula, engraving

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Scrofula

Images from the collections

Images about Scrofula

Works from the collections

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].

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

M0018276: Browne: Adenochoiradelogia, 1684: tile page / M0018277: Portrait of John Browne (1642-1702) / M0018278: King Charles II touching for scrofula, engraving

Scrofula

Images from the collections

Images about Scrofula

Works from the collections

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].

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

M0018276: Browne: Adenochoiradelogia, 1684: tile page / M0018277: Portrait of John Browne (1642-1702) / M0018278: King Charles II touching for scrofula, engraving

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