Marc Bloch’s well-known book did not insist much on the royal touch during the seventeenth century. Many documents inform us about the place of the physicians in the ceremonial. After sorting out the sick, they held the heads of those the king had to touch. On account of the number of the scrofulous cases, the physicians had to warrant the good course of the ritual from a sanitary point of view. Also, the kings washed their hands after the touch. In the seventeenth century, we witnessed a sort of medical qualities to the king’s touch: medicines were on the increase, the kings overstrained themselves when the formulas became meddled in a complete indifference. Yet, the decline of the touch is not totally linked with the flight of a whole medical vision of scrofula. The two phenomena were contemporary but not necessarily connected.