Stories
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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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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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Scrofula : origin of the term / [Erasmus Wilson].
Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884Date: 1868
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Scrofula, vapour baths, &c : a letter to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the vice presidents, and committee, of the Asylum for Scrofula, &c. / by Charles Whitlaw.
Whitlaw, Charles.Date: [1826]
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Scrofula : its nature, its causes, its prevalence, and the principles of treatment / by Benjamin Phillips.
Date: 1846
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Scrofula : its nature, its causes, its prevalence, and the principles of treatment / [Benjamin Phillips].
Phillips, Benjamin, approximately 1805-1861.Date: 1846
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Scrofula: its nature, causes, and treatment; and on the prevention and eradication of the strumous diathesis / [William Tyler Smith].
Smith, W. Tyler (William Tyler), 1815-1873.Date: 1844