A free and impartial enquiry into the antiquity and efficacy of touching for the cure of the King's Evil written some time since, in two letters: the one to Dr. Steigertahl ... the other to Sir Hans Sloane ... To which is added, a collection of records / By William Beckett.

  • William Becket
Date:
1722
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Credit: A free and impartial enquiry into the antiquity and efficacy of touching for the cure of the King's Evil written some time since, in two letters: the one to Dr. Steigertahl ... the other to Sir Hans Sloane ... To which is added, a collection of records / By William Beckett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    % f 2. A Free and Impartial Enquiry INTO THE Antiquity and Efficacy o F TOUCHING F O R T H E Cure of the King’s Evil. Written feme time fince, in Two Letters- The One to Dr. Steigertahl, Phyfician to his Majefty, Fellow of the College of Tkyficians, and of the Royal Society j the Other to Sir Hans Sloan e, Bart. Prefident of the College of Rhyficians, and Vice-Pre- fident of the Royal Society. Now fir ft publifhed, in order to a compleat Confutation of that fuppofed fuperoatural Power, lately juftified in a Pamphlet, inti¬ tuled, A Letter from a Gentleman at Rome* to his Friend in London, &c.. To which is added, A Collection of LlecmdsA By V/ILL1AM BECKETT, Surgeon, 'and F. R. S. '»*rt'*rllril«T*,rw>'*mu’IUIIIM III I vm ■ ■■■■' • wiwii«gimnnrrTwmnw tiui L f) N D O N: Printed, and fold -by J. Peele, at Lockes* Read In Pater-nofler Row. jjz i, [Price One Shilling.]