King’s Evil and a Two-Hundred-Year-Old Charm June 29, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
The King’s Evil (aka scrofula) was a form of tuberculosis that created horrific injuries on the skin’s surface, particular in the neck area. It could only be cured, many early modern French and British sufferers believed, by contact with royalty: a sufferer would go to the king or queen, be touched, and cured. The practice […]
