Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… 1 . Lyonell Beacher, Wonders if not miracles, or, A relation of the wonderful performances of Vanlentine Gertrux. (London: 1665). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A27152.0001.001/1:4?rgn=div1;view=fulltext, p. 7. Although a minor event … Greatrakes, A Brief Account of Mr Valentine Greatrak's And DIvers of the Strange Cures By him lately Performed (London: J. Downing, 1723), p.28 3 . See Eamon Duffy, ‘Valentine Greatrakes, the Irish Stroker: Miracle, Science, and … 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, in a letter to Robert Hunt esq.: Mr. …
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