An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: November 17, 2024

CRAWFURD, Sir Raymond Henry Payne

2 entries
  • 6646

The king’s evil.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911.

A classic account of the history of touching for the “king’s evil” or scrofula— a practice of kings from ancient times until the 18th century.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Mycosis › Scrofula (Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis), INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis › History of Tuberculosis, Magic & Superstition in Medicine
  • 5138

Plague and pestilence in literature and art.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914.

Deals with the subject up to the end of the 18th century. Revised ed., 1951.



Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History of, LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology