CRAWFURD, Sir Raymond Henry Payne
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The king’s evil.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911.A classic account of the history of touching for the “king’s evil” or scrofula— a practice of kings from ancient times until the 18th century. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Mycosis › Scrofula (Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis), INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis › History of Tuberculosis, Magic & Superstition in Medicine |
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Plague and pestilence in literature and art.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914.Deals with the subject up to the end of the 18th century. Revised ed., 1951. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology |