“Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.”
A bizarre anecdote illustrating belief in royal healing powers, where a man with a fungal infection seeks cure by touching the king's hand.
In simple terms: Superstitious reliance on monarchic touch for health.
Royal authority was thought to have literal healing properties.
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Modern medicine shows no physiological basis for such cures, making the story a cultural curiosity rather than a factual remedy.
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