Among other disease, scrofula was a common skin ailment at the time. Doctors believed toads can help cure scrofula and other ...

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A Quaker tribe, on the river Zanga, never fight, never have consumption, scrofula, hydrophobia, cholera, smallpox, or measles. Dr. Livingstone is nearly forty years old. His face is furrowed by ...

Valentine Greatrakes, otherwise known as “The Stroker”, was an Irish faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people of the King’s Evil (scrofula), wounds and ulcers simply ...

"There were among them many old, descrepit, blind and sick with scrofula, tuberculosis, rheumatism and various other ailments," Kuykendall wrote. "They were without exception the most miserable ...

Infectious lymphadenitis affecting lymph nodes in the neck is often called scrofula. Abdominal pain, also known as a stomach ache, is a symptom associated with both non-serious and serious medical ...

The 'children' are three diseases, thought at the time to be spread by 'bad air' - diphtheria, scrofula and cholera. In the summer of 1858, the combination of sewage in the Thames and high ...

You can draw a pretty straight line from the superstitious belief that a king’s touch cured scrofula to the myth (it is entirely untrue) that the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s was deepened by the ...