Stories
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
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Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
Flaxman, John, 1755-1826.Date: Jan.y 1st 1831Reference: 17873i- Books
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The clergyman's companion in visiting the sick: being a collection of the following particulars for that purpose, Viz. I. Of the manner of Visiting the Sick, extracted from Dr. Taylor. II. The Order for Visitation of the Sick, out of the Common-Prayer-Book. III. The Communion of the Sick. IV. Several other Prayers and Forms, with a considerable variety of Occasional Prayers for the Sick; taken out of the Writings of some of the most Eminent Divines of the Church of England. To which are annex'd, the offices of publick and private baptism.
Wren, John, 1674 or 1675-1724.Date: 1712- Books
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The clergyman's companion in visiting the sick. Being a collection of the following particulars for that purpose; Viz. I. The Manner of Visiting the Sick: extracted chiefly from Bishop Taylor. II. The Order for Visitation of the Sick out of the Common-Prayer-Book. III. The Communion of the Sick. IV. Some other Prayers and Forms, with a very great Varity of Occasional Prayers for the Sick; Collected for the most Part, from the Devotional Writings of some of the most eminent Divines of the Church of England. To which are annexed, the offices of publick and private baptism.
Wren, John, 1674 or 1675-1724.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The clergyman's companion in visiting the sick. Being a collection of the following particulars for that purpose, Viz. I. The Manner of Visiting the Sick; extracted chiefly from Bishop Taylor. II. The Order for Visitation of the Sick, out of the Common-Prayer-Book. III. The Communion of the Sick. IV. Some other Prayers and Forms, with a very great Variety of Occasional Prayers for the Sick: Collected for the most part, from the Devotional Writings of some of the most eminent Divines of the Church of England. To which are annex'd, the offices of publick and private baptism.
Wren, John, 1674 or 1675-1724.Date: 1716- Books
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The clergyman's companion in visiting the sick. Being a collection of the following particulars for that purpose; Viz. I. The Manner of Visiting the Sick; extracted chiefly from Bishop Taylor. II. The Order for Visitation of the Sick, out of the Common-Prayer-Book. III. The Communion of the Sick. IV. Some other Prayers and Forms, with a very great Variety of Occasional Prayers for the Sick; Collected, for the most part, from the Devotional Writings of some of the most eminent Divines of the Church of England. To which are annex'd, the offices of publick and private baptism.
Wren, John, 1674 or 1675-1724.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]