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From: "Michelle Stroud" <>
Subject: Re: [INMONROE] RE: Kings Evil
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:13:09 -0500


This is so interesting. You rarely, if ever, hear of these things today. Thank you very much for sharing this information.

Michelle

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Subject: [INMONROE] RE: Kings Evil

Rootsweb: MEDICAL TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
Most of the definitions of diagnoses in the glossary that follows are from
medical dictionaries or medical texts compiled at different points in the
nineteenth century. To determine which medical terms should be defined, the
author has surveyed various mortality schedules, death certificates, and
other medical sources of the nineteenth century. While he has tried to
submit the best possible interpretation of these terms, there are certainly
other interpretations which may be valid.

King's evil - A popular name for scrofula. The name originated in the time
of Edward the Confessor, with the belief that the disease could be cured by
the touch of the king of England.


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