A free and impartial enquiry into the antiquity and efficacy of touching for the cure of the King's Evil written some time since, in two letters: the one to Dr. Steigertahl ... the other to Sir Hans Sloane ... To which is added, a collection of records / By William Beckett.

  • Beckett, William, 1684-1738.
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A free and impartial enquiry into the antiquity and efficacy of touching for the cure of the King's Evil written some time since, in two letters: the one to Dr. Steigertahl ... the other to Sir Hans Sloane ... To which is added, a collection of records / By William Beckett. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed, and sold by J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Pater noster Row, 1722.

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63 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 24 pages ; (8vo)

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Subtitle continued: Now first published, in order to a compleat confutation of that supposed supernatural power, lately justified in a pamphlet, intituled, A letter from a gentleman at Rome, to his friend in London, &c
Signatures: A-H4, A-C4
Letter to Sir Hans Sloane has half title: A dissertation concerning the ancient method made use of, for the curing diseases by charms, amulets, &c. ...

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