Greatrakes’s original and narrowest claim, dating from around 1662: that he had been given a divine gift to cure scrofula by touch. It rests entirely on patient and witness testimony gathered by Greatrakes and his supporters, with no controlled comparison and no diagnostic confirmation of scrofula in the patients treated. No systematic clinical test of the claim is documented in the sources reviewed for this case; it remains untested rather than affirmatively disproven on its own narrow terms, though the broader claim it grew into (see the general-cure claim, separately recorded) was directly tested and failed.