Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Mrs John Webb, being nursed when sick in bed with "a dead palsey, and ... convulsion in the nerves", before being cured by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.
Mrs John Webb, being nursed when sick in bed with "a dead palsey, and ... convulsion in the nerves", before being cured by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.
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Mrs John Webb, being nursed when sick in bed with "a dead palsey, and ... convulsion in the nerves", before being cured by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.

Michael Burghers

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Lettering: He cur'd the wife of John Webb of Wooten Basset in Wilt-shire of a dead palsey, and of convulsion in the nerves, after being 11 years bedridden, and restor'd her to the perfect use of her limbs. M. Burghers deline et sculp.

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