Genre:

Extract, Biography

Publications extracted:

Wadd 1824

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Magic, Expertise, Imposture, Disability

People mentioned:

Robert Boyle , Ralph Cudworth , John Wilkins , Richard Wiseman , Charles Bernard

    After discussing the history of touching for scrofula, the writer notes that, 'The obsolete practice of Greatrakes has in a degree appeared again in the shape of friction, and has revived in full force in the process of thumbing and rubbing, as applied by certain adepts to distortions' (126).