A modical suporstilion ' conccruinp, the (Joronation has passed almost unooticed. When George VI. wus anointed in Wostminster Abbey, he ac quiied the right of "touching for tho I'ving's Evil." It is highly donbtful wnether he will use this .proprogative; Lit if he did there would probably be no lack of patients coming to him. Tho King's Evil is the traditional name for scrofula, a form of swollen glamis in the neck, and it is so called becauso from tho days of Edward the Confessor to those of Queen Anne, English kings were believed to cure it by touehing fublic Health Conference at Margate, tfie patient with their .duly anoiuted tan'di.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 7
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