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The King’s Evil

November 5, 2014 By Ying Leave a Comment

Hello, friends. Happy Guy Fawkes Day! I hope you're celebrating with just the right combination of open flame and recreational explosives. This week, my main blog post is over at the History Girls, where I write about the King's Evil - another name for scrofula, a disfiguring swelling of the neck glands that was often linked to tuberculosis in the seventeenth century. What has this to do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Do, Things I Read Tagged With: Charles II, England, France, Guy Fawkes Day, History Girls, laying on of hands, Liza Picard, medicine, Restoration London, scrofula, The King's Evil, the Restoration, the royal touch, the seventeenth century, tuberculosis

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