A free and impartial enquiry into the antiquity and efficacy of touching for the cure of the king's evil
Subtitle: written some time since, in two letters, the one to Dr. Steigertahl, the other to Sir Hans Sloane : Now first published : To which is added, A collection of records
By: by William Beckett
Publisher: Printed, and sold by J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Pater noster Row
Published: 1722
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Royal touch; Scrofula; Early works to 1800
Notes: Subtitle continued: Now first published, in order to a compleat confutation of that supposed supernatural power, lately justified in a pamphlet, intituled, A letter from a gentleman at Rome, to his friend in London ...

Signatures: A-H⁴, A-C⁴.

Letter to Sir Hans Sloane has half title: A dissertation concerning the ancient method made use of, for the curing diseases by charms, amulets, &c. ...