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The olden name for the disease scrofula (tubercular swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck), ... *1 "King's Touch" in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) provides the source of etymology and definition here. The OED glosses "king's stroke" as being the touch that cures king's evil, but this does not to be in widespread usage.
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In the Middle Ages it was believed in England and France that a touch from royalty could heal skin disease known as scrofula or the ‘king's evil’. Scrofula was usually a swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck caused ... F Barlow, `The King's Evil', The English Historical Review, 95/374 (January 1980), pp 3-27...
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Other AllPosters.com products ... Usually ships within 6 to 10 days. Ships from and sold by AllPosters. ... Artist: English School...
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King's Evil: The historic designation for scrofula (TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE). The disease is so called from the belief that it could be healed by the touch ...
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What is Herod's Evil? ... In the book I, Claudius, Herod succumbed to a disease that had symptoms described as "putrescent stomach, corpse-like breath, maggots breeding in the privy member, and a constant watery flow from the bowels causing inflamed madness." Is this disease confined to the Herods, or shall I live in fear...
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His enemy Ahriman, the spirit of darkness, lies, and evil, created only destructive things such as vermin, disease, and demons. The world was their ... The legend of Rustum shows the part human heroes play in the great drama of good and evil. Rustum was so strong and brave that the king made him head of the army.
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The 'Doctor' in Macbeth, iv, 3, on 'the King's Evil', scrofula; Ye Kynge his evill in me laye, Wh. ... This was the name used then for scrofula (a tubercular infection of the throat lymph glands), a disease which from the time of King Clovis of France in 481 CE was believed to be curable by a touch of the monarch's hand.
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Ye Kynge his evill in me laye, Wh. he of Scottlande charmed awaye. He layde his hand on mine and sayd: "Be gone!" Ye ill no longer stayd. But O ye wofull plyght in wh. I'm now y-pight: I have ye itche!; Scottish text on the King's Evil.
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In Feast of the King's Shadow, Marron and his companions took shelter in an abandoned house; they learned that its inhabitants had become ill with a mysterious wasting disease which was striking down many of the people of the oasis. ... Later, in Hand of the King's Evil, the preacher and his severed limb, with its strange -
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