A free and impartial enquiry into the antiquity and efficacy of touching for the cure of the King's Evil written some time since, in two letters
Subtitle: the one to Dr. Steigertahl ... the other to Sir Hans Sloane ... To which is added, a collection of records
By: By William Beckett
Contributors: Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753; Steigertahl, Johann Georg, approximately 1667-
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: Therapeutic Touch; King's Evil; Royal touch; Scrofula
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, &c.

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. ...

ESTC T94500.