Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 645

JOHN BROWNE (1642-ca. 1700) Charisma basilicon; or, The royal gift of healing strumaes, or kings-evil, swellings by contact, or imposition of the sacred hands of our kings of England and France, given them at their inaugurations. Printed for Sam. Lowndes 1684 [xl] 196 [12] pp.

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Browne saw great importance in the glands, considering them even more significant then they really are. His descriptions of glandular tumors and "strumaes" are very vivid, and his case histories of patients cured by the king's touch are clear evidence of much of the foolishness which pervaded medicine of the seventeenth century.

Gift of D. H. Talbot