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  • James Gillray, "Metallic Tractors", showing Elisha Perkins
  • Original Elisha Perkins' patented metallic tractors.
  • Perkins's patent metallic tractors / [Benjamin Douglas Perkins].
  • Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution. In four cantos : most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians / By Christopher Caustic.
  • A man is violently rubbed with magnets. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured reproduction of an aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
  • Advertisement for metallic instruments claimed to cure disease