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Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.

Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de des plantas de Nueva-España : especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso, y de otras graves enfermedades. Que resisten al uso del mercurio, y demas remedios conocidos ...  / Por ... Don Francisco Xavier Bálmis.

Queen Mary performing the Royal Touch. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916.

Charles II touching a patient for the king's evil (scrofula) surrounded by courtiers, clergy and general public. Engraving by R. White.

Queen Mary I touching the neck of a boy for the King's evil (scrofula). Watercolour by M.S. Lapthorn, 1911, after a watercolour, 16th. century.

Front and reverse of four coin-like objects known as 'royal touch pieces' which were given by royal personages to people suffering from the king's evil (scrofula). Etching.

Moxibustion chart: the zhoujian points, ink drawing, Chinese

Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs : together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors ; and the mammary-abscesses, and sore nipples of lying-in women / [Michael Underwood].

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

A treatise on the nature of scrofula : in which an attempt is made to account for the origin of that disease on new principles; illustrated by various facts and observations explanatory of a method for its complete eradication; together with an appendix, containing several interesting cases. / By William Farr.

A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrofulous diseases : containing directions for combating every form of scrofula with success, illustrated by cases / [William Farr].

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de phthisi pulmonali scrophulosa : quam, annuente summo numine : ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti : nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto : pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis / eruditorum examini subjicit Thomas Concanen, Hibernus, Soc. Reg. Med. Ed. Sod. Ejusdemque ad acta edenda ab electis, necnon, Soc. Americ. Physic. Sod. Extraord.

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Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs : together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors ; and the mammary-abscesses, and sore nipples of lying-in women / [Michael Underwood].

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrofulous diseases : containing directions for combating every form of scrofula with success, illustrated by cases / [William Farr].