A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's, and Divers of the Strange Cures by Him Lately Performed

Greatrakes's own autobiographical pamphlet, an open letter to Robert Boyle written to answer critic David Lloyd, with fifty-three annexed testimonials from Boyle, Andrew Marvell, Ralph Cudworth, John Wilkins, Benjamin Whichcote, and other named witnesses. Catalogue record confirmed directly against the Wellcome Collection catalogue (work id eqmmzcd2): title, imprint 'London: Printed for J. Starkey, 1666', and physical description ('1 unnumbered leaf, 96 pages: engr. frontispiece (portrait)') fetched from the Wellcome Collection API. The primary source for Greatrakes's own account of his 1662 'impulse,' his claimed method, and his denial that his gift was a miracle. Quoted passages describing this pamphlet's content in this case are drawn from the Dictionary of National Biography's direct citation of it (p. 34), not read from the original 96-page pamphlet itself, which the routine did not have full-text access to; see the separately cited DNB 1890 entry.