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Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Lucky in Devon - 26

King's Evil, or Scrofula, or lymphadenitis of the cervical lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis. By Dr.J.S.Bhandari, India (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

It is lucky -

"To be the seventh son of a seventh son, for he can, by passing his hand over the glands of the neck of a person suffering from King's Evil, cure the disease."

Hewett 1900

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