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Strange Pages from Family Papers

by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

The case is related of a woman who, attacked with the smallpox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks, and of a poor lad living near Manchester who was touched with it for the cure of scrofulous sores.

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English

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English

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1895

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The Reverend Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer was a son of William George Thiselton-Dyer, physician and of Catherine Jane, née Firminger. He was educated at King's College School and at Pembroke...

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