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  • The king's evil / by Raymond Crawfurd.
  • The king's evil / by Raymond Crawfurd.
  • King's evil; Edward the confessor touching for the evil. from Cambridge University Library
  • By the King : A proclamation for adiouring the Terme [on account of the plague; also forbidding any citizen from seeking the royal touch as a cure for the King's Evil. 9 Sept. 1630]
  • By the King : A proclamation for adiouring the Terme [on account of the plague; also forbidding any citizen from seeking the royal touch as a cure for the King's Evil. 9 Sept. 1630]
  • By the King : A proclamation for adiouring the Terme [on account of the plague; also forbidding any citizen from seeking the royal touch as a cure for the King's Evil. 9 Sept. 1630]
  • The sixth avatara if Visnu. The warrior Brahman Parasurama slays the evil king Anjuna with an axe.
  • The sixth avatara if Visnu. The warrior Brahman Parasurama slays the evil king Anjuna with an axe.
  • Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.
  • 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.
  • A dissertation on the use of sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy, jaudice, king's-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption / Translated from the Latin ... by an eminent physician.
  • Kings Evil Proclamation, printed 1626
  • Lord Vishnu in his incarnation as Parshuram to destroy the evil kings. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • The illustrated London news, no. 3720, vol. CXXXVII Saturday, August 6, 1910 : The cabinet that saves the operator from the evils of x-rays: the King looking at a patient under the x-rays at the London Hospital / drawn by S. Begg.
  • The illustrated London news, no. 3720, vol. CXXXVII Saturday, August 6, 1910 : The cabinet that saves the operator from the evils of x-rays: the King looking at a patient under the x-rays at the London Hospital / drawn by S. Begg.
  • Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.
  • Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.
  • A right frutefull and approoved treatise, for the artificiall cure of that malady called in Latin Struma, and in English the Evill, cured by Kinges and Queenes of England / [William Clowes].
  • A right frutefull and approoved treatise, for the artificiall cure of that malady called in Latin Struma, and in English the Evill, cured by Kinges and Queenes of England / [William Clowes].
  • A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • Gold touchpiece
  • The Gloucester journal. Vol. LXXXVII. No. 4476, Monday, January 4, 1808 / printed and published by D. Walker, (successor to R. Raikes,) near the Cross, Westgate Street.
  • The Gloucester journal. Vol. LXXXVII. No. 4476, Monday, January 4, 1808 / printed and published by D. Walker, (successor to R. Raikes,) near the Cross, Westgate Street.
  • Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver'
  • John Browne, Adenochoiradelogia, 1684
  • St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.