Faith-Healing and "Christian Science" (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Been of a strictly devotional character. A secular form, so to speak, familiar to readers of modern history, is that commonly known as Touching for the King's Evil,' which was so popular a remedy for scrofula, goitre, and epilepsy in this and in Continental countries.' We first read of its being practised in Eng land by Edward the Confessor in the eleventh century,2 and it only became obsolete after the death of Queen Anne in the eighteenth.8 The hard-headed Elizabeth is said to have been.

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