GREATRAKES, Valentine [GREATOREX] (1629 – 1683)
1629 – 1683
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1666 CE
#4992
A brief account of Mr Valentine Greatrakes, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed. Written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq., 1666.
The earliest scientific account, by a practitioner, and corroborated by witnesses, of healing by the “laying-on of hands”. Greatrakes became known as “the Irish stroker” because of his method o…
2013 CE
#11519