Curing the "King's evil" : to the editor of the Mirror / Ruris.

  • Ruris, pseud.
Date:
[1829]
  • Ephemera

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Article about a physician from Hazlebury near Sturminster whose cure for scrofula or King's Evil involved tying a bag containing a toad's legs around the neck of a patient 24 hours before the first new moon in May, saying a 'verbal charm' and giving the patient a lotion and salve. The article also talks about the stone in the toad's head, or Bufonian jewel and how to obtain one by putting a toad's head into an ant hill for 12 days.

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1829]

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1 sheet ; 21 cm

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Related material

Mirror. No. 371 (23 May 1829).

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    EPH686

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