Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… Greatrakes truly was a celebrity in Restoration England. That Greatrakes was ‘ [t]he great discourse now at the Coffee-Houses and every where’ in 1666, when he was in London to perform his prodigious cures, is testified by Joseph Glanvill, … and really there is some thing in it more then ordinary . 4 As Glanvill reports, during Greatrakes’s stay at Conway House, more than one thousand sufferers received his touch. Greatrakes arrived at Ragley Hall (in Warwickshire) in …
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