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Many persoas are not aware that scrofula is vulgarly called the king ' s-evil , and was thus termed because a king was supposed to possess the power of curing it . Thus , among other old medical works , was published , in 1684 , Joseph Brown ' s Adenochoiradelogia , or an Anatomick-Chirurgical Treatise of King ' s-evil , with the Royal
Gift of Sealing , performed for above 64 ^ 0 Years by our Kings of England , with many wonderful Examples . In the frontispiece , Charles It . is seen healing , or rather endeavouring to heal this disorder . Mr . Brown , as his majesty ' s chirurgeon , doubtless thought it right to play the humbug . There are some persons in the present dav who believe that the virtues of the royal touch , which kings
pf England are said to have possessed from the time of Edward the Confessor to Queen Anne , in common with foreign kings and Romish saints , have really cured persons of scrofulous habit , and this they attribute to animal magnetism . Was this influence of magnetism , we may ask , ever conveyed to a patient over whom were made in a single interview a few passes ? Why , if this gift of healing was effectual , should" it not be practised now , in foreign
courts at least , and why was not the service for this ceremony allowed to remain the Prayer-book ? This subject is connected with ecclesiastical history , and the service is given in Hook ' s " Church Dictionary . " In one year alone King Charles IL , in whose reign the royal-cure mania was at its height , touched six thousand persons . One of the last persons who tried this remedy , without success of course , was Dr . Johnson . Johnson was then young , and his parents credulous .
Among theological works there are many which bear very warlike titles . The first we shall mention has rather a medical look ; it is a Catholic Pill to purge Popery , 1677 , which may have suggested to poor Tom D'UnrEr the title , if not the idea , of writing his " Pills to purge Melancholy , ' published in 1720 . Seventy years before
this was printed , Lewis Hughes' Looking Glasse for all true-hearted Christians , wherein you may see the Goodnesse of God in gwing Deliverance unto them from their popish , cruel , and bloody Enemies , by rendering Vengeance upon them . There is a curious wood-cut of the Pope on the beast with seven heads , in this book , and on the title-page is the following
motto—* Where poperie and innovations do begin , There treason will by degrees come in . " Side by side with this may be placed the Boman Conjuror ; a Whip for the Devil ; or the Roman Conjuror , containing Pules to be observed by a Popish Exorcist ; the Nonjuror ' s Rubrick ; their Remedies for expelling Evil Spirits ; Method of making Koly Water , Sfc . ; all faithfully collected from their own Authors , 1683 . In the year 1576 , the following protest was published : —
" The third new yeares gift and the second protest , and the first proclamation of outlawry for this yeer , 1576 , against all the learned Papists in England , Antwerp , or els where the Papists bookes are
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Many persoas are not aware that scrofula is vulgarly called the king ' s-evil , and was thus termed because a king was supposed to possess the power of curing it . Thus , among other old medical works , was published , in 1684 , Joseph Brown ' s Adenochoiradelogia , or an Anatomick-Chirurgical Treatise of King ' s-evil , with the Royal
Gift of Sealing , performed for above 64 ^ 0 Years by our Kings of England , with many wonderful Examples . In the frontispiece , Charles It . is seen healing , or rather endeavouring to heal this disorder . Mr . Brown , as his majesty ' s chirurgeon , doubtless thought it right to play the humbug . There are some persons in the present dav who believe that the virtues of the royal touch , which kings
pf England are said to have possessed from the time of Edward the Confessor to Queen Anne , in common with foreign kings and Romish saints , have really cured persons of scrofulous habit , and this they attribute to animal magnetism . Was this influence of magnetism , we may ask , ever conveyed to a patient over whom were made in a single interview a few passes ? Why , if this gift of healing was effectual , should" it not be practised now , in foreign
courts at least , and why was not the service for this ceremony allowed to remain the Prayer-book ? This subject is connected with ecclesiastical history , and the service is given in Hook ' s " Church Dictionary . " In one year alone King Charles IL , in whose reign the royal-cure mania was at its height , touched six thousand persons . One of the last persons who tried this remedy , without success of course , was Dr . Johnson . Johnson was then young , and his parents credulous .
Among theological works there are many which bear very warlike titles . The first we shall mention has rather a medical look ; it is a Catholic Pill to purge Popery , 1677 , which may have suggested to poor Tom D'UnrEr the title , if not the idea , of writing his " Pills to purge Melancholy , ' published in 1720 . Seventy years before
this was printed , Lewis Hughes' Looking Glasse for all true-hearted Christians , wherein you may see the Goodnesse of God in gwing Deliverance unto them from their popish , cruel , and bloody Enemies , by rendering Vengeance upon them . There is a curious wood-cut of the Pope on the beast with seven heads , in this book , and on the title-page is the following
motto—* Where poperie and innovations do begin , There treason will by degrees come in . " Side by side with this may be placed the Boman Conjuror ; a Whip for the Devil ; or the Roman Conjuror , containing Pules to be observed by a Popish Exorcist ; the Nonjuror ' s Rubrick ; their Remedies for expelling Evil Spirits ; Method of making Koly Water , Sfc . ; all faithfully collected from their own Authors , 1683 . In the year 1576 , the following protest was published : —
" The third new yeares gift and the second protest , and the first proclamation of outlawry for this yeer , 1576 , against all the learned Papists in England , Antwerp , or els where the Papists bookes are