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...England.) That touch of holiness once gave the occupant of the throne the supposed ability to cure certain diseases most famously, scrofula, a terrible skin ailment that was called "the king's evil." Thus, the miraculous contact had to be conserved. And so,...
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Big News Network
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...That touch of holiness once gave the occupant of the throne the supposed ability to cure certain diseases, most famously, scrofula, a terrible skin ailment which was called "the king's evil." Thus, the miraculous contact had to be conserved. And so, whether...
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Time Magazine
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...the herb sage for headaches and prescribes 'Flower de Luce for the dropsie' as well as providing recipes for 'The King's Evil' (scrofula) and 'For a horse that is swoln'. Your email address will not be published No comments have so far been submitted....
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Daily Mail - UK
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...alone, and a top is more versatile than a dress. 5 Quirky accessories: the It-anything has the same cachet right now as scrofula. Individuality (or at least something that 7,000 other people on the waiting list aren’t wearing) is where it’s at. Seek out beautiful...
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article5547621.ece
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...who knew so many Hollywood stars were actually Republican agents provocateurs? "I pledge to help all Americans suffering from scrofula to get to Washington so that they may be cured by the touch of the Leader's garment." Two more thoughts: Were these not problems...
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The Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/posts/1232595017.shtml
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...and peatland before being bottled. The healing powers of Deeside water were first noted 250 years ago when a woman was cured of scrofula - an infection of glands in the neck - after bathing in and drinking the waters. As word spread, a spa grew up at nearby...
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Daily Mail - UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1117965/The-spring-water-really-hold-hands-time-according-scientists.html?ITO=1490
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...Fanta or CocaCola and wear tee shirts made in China. And the toxins of yesteryear’s foods isn’t something you want to face either (TB Scrofula from contaminated milk, typhoid/Salmonella on vegetables, Ergot poisoning from poorly stored grain) . However, there...
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La Comtesse reads Chambers' Book of days entry for January 9.
Directed by: Claude Chabrol Summary: In 19th century France, the daughter of a country squire, Emma, marries a country doctor, Charles Bovary(Jean-François Balmer). All to soon, Emma grows bored with her husband and looks elsewhere for romance first with a landowner, Rodolphe Boulanger(Christophe Malavoy), then with a law student, Léon Dupuis(Lucas Belvaux). Her extravagant tastes lead Emma to run up a huge debt. Determined to keep her folly from her husband, who still dotes on her, Madame ...
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...rotting corpse. When this guy was alive he used to bleed from his hands and feet! If kissing his bones won't magically cure the scrofula, then what could? A bit off-topic, I know, but speaking of Christians, any word on PZ's debate with Angus Menuge? Sas,...
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ScienceBlogs
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A good fellowship song. A slow, Boone's Farm day. Will cure your scrofula.
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...drew daisies and rats on the placemat while Llovio ate pancakes next to her in the booth, his face making the word scrofula with each bite. She watched the pies in rotation, happy to be real and present on Pico Boulevard. Her socks have ribs down the...
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Warrenellis.com
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5381
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...just the thought of the ted turner headed dogs running around made this day go by a bit better. You don't know from sexy. Now scrofula, that's sexy. @mathnet: there's something about the siren call of a blocked intestine that just makes him undervalue all...
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Gawker
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/161664405/ted-turner-polio-just-not-as-sexy-as-aids-304047.php
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...at the effect of its water on skin. The healing powers of Deeside water were first noted 250 years ago when a woman was cured of scrofula - an infection of glands in the neck - after bathing in and drinking the waters. As word spread, a spa grew up at nearby...
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Daily Mail - UK
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...campaign cash on impeccably-groomed occasional male models to serve as his security staff. When he becomes king he'll be able to cure scrofula with this stroke. "The OED glosses 'king's stroke' as being the touch that cures king's evil." Stroke - heh heh,...
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Wonkette
http://wonkette.com/politics/tempting-fate-dept%27/it-just-became-marginally-harder-for-lepers-to-get-obama-to-cure-them-with-his-touch-257615.php
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...that snake oil, judiciously applied, was thought to have been an effective component in the ancients’ arsenal of curatives for scrofula, the gout, logorrhea and the peculiar condition known as cruddies. Neither were the restorative powers of snake oil unknown...
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protein wisdom
http://proteinwisdom.com/index.php?/weblog/entry/22439/
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...of trend-following dolts happily swallow in the same credulous way peasants once believed in "the king's touch" as a cure for scrofula. Let the ignorant sorts who subscribe to MMR scares, cellphone cancer panics and pesticide phobias keep paying a premium...
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Foreign Dispatches
http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2007/01/a_cheer_for_dav.html
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...test drive"; we recently took a pretty high-end vehicle out for a spin and it was shuddering like it had dropsy, housemaid's knee, scrofula, or a combo of all of these. After hearing the spin from the salesperson that it was the "road" (yeah, right), we ended...
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Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/software/auto/ten-ways-to-avoid-a-lemon-195013.php
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Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the and any section headings.
A 39-year-old Zambian man who was visiting the United States presented with a three-week history of a draining neck
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New England Journal of Medicine -- Recent Issues
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