Royal touch
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royal-touch-167-1483256
title:
Royal touch
text:
The royal touch was a form of laying on of hands, whereby French and English monarchs touched their subjects, regardless of social classes, with the intent to cure them of various diseases and conditions. The thaumaturgic touch was most commonly applied to people suffering from tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis, and exclusively to them from the 16th century onwards. The disease rarely resulted in death and often went into remission on its own, giving the impression that the monarch's touch cure
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Healing power supposedly possessed by monarchs
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_touch
date created:
2006-01-28T02:20:39Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:51:49Z
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