Scrofula, or 'King's Evil' - From: Bramwell, Byrom Edinburgh, Constable, 1893 Atlas of Clinical Medicine. Source: National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA. |
"MANY persons believe that a seventh son can cure diseases, but that a seventh son of a seventh son, and no female child born between, can cure the King's Evil."
Hewett 1900
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