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Historical Bibliography Updated: February 8, 2020

The king’s evil.

Publication Details

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911 CE.

A classic account of the history of touching for the “king’s evil” or scrofula— a practice of kings from ancient times until the 18th century.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#6646
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/7769
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLthe-kings-evil

Geographic Context

Publication place: Oxford