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单词 royal touch
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Royal touch


the touching of a diseased person by the hand of a king, with the view of restoring to health; - formerly extensively practiced, particularly for the scrofula, or king's evil.

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royal touch


roy·al touch

a touching of a patient by the king, which was thought to be curative; usually applied to patients with scrofula, but also done with patients with enlarged lymph glands (buboes) related to plague.
The tapping or touching of a person with scrofula—primary tuberculosis of cervical lymph nodes—by a king which was meant to cure them of the disease
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