Strange Pages from Family Papers
Author: first_name: Thomas Firminger
last_name: Thiselton-Dyer
Language: English
Year: 1895

“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be mentioned the famous ‘dead hand,’ which was, in years past, kept at Bryn Hall, Lancashire… Thus the case is related of a woman who, attacked with the smallpox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks, and of a poor lad living near Manchester who was touched with it for the cure of scrofulous sores.” <br /><br />Though not all chapters hav