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A view of the Perkinean electricity, or, an inquiry into the influence of metallic tractors founded on a newly-discovered principle in nature, and employed as a remedy in many painful inflammatory diseases ... : with a review [from Bristol Mercury, May 21st, 1798] of Mr. Perkins's late pamphlet on the subject; to which is added, an appendix, containing a variety of experiments. ... / [Charles Cunningham Langworthy].
Langworthy, Charles Cunningham, 1771-1847.Date: 1798- Pictures
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An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured reproduction of an aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 11 November 1801Reference: 11817i- Books
Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath / By John Haygarth.
Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.Date: 1800- Books
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A view of the Perkinean electricity, or, an inquiry into the influence of metallic tractors founded on a newly-discovered principle in nature, and employed as a remedy in many painful inflammatory diseases ... : with a review [from Bristol Mercury, May 21st, 1798] of Mr. Perkins's late pamphlet on the subject; to which is added, an appendix, containing a variety of experiments. ... / by Charles Cunningham Langworthy.
Langworthy, Charles Cunningham, 1771-1847.Date: 1798- Books
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Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body : exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions ... : read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath / by John Haygarth.
Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.Date: 1801- Books
The influence of metallic tractors on the human body, in removing various painful inflammatory diseases ... Lately discoverd by Dr. [Elisha] Perkins, of North America ... and demonstrated in a series of experiments ... By which the importance of the discovery is fully ascertained, and a new field of enquiry opened in the modern science of galvanism, or, animal electricity / By Benjamin Douglas Perkins.
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810.Date: 1799- Books
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Observations on animal electricity : in explanation of the metallic operation of Doctor Perkins / by John Vaughan, M.P.M.S. ; fellow of the Medical Society of Delaware.
Vaughan, John, 1775-1807.Date: 1797- Books
The modern philosopher; or terrible tractoration! In four cantos, most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By Christopher Caustick [pseud].
Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837.Date: 1806- Books
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Certificates of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.
Date: [1796]- Books
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Evidences of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.
Date: [1797]- Books
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Certificates of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.
Date: [1796]- Books
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A view of the Perkinean electricity, or, an enquiry into the influence of metallic tractors, founded on a newly-discovered principle in nature, and employed as a remedy in many painful inflammatory diseases, as Rheumatism, Gout, Quinsy, Pleurisy, Tumefactions, Scalds, Burns, and a Variety of other Topical Complaints: with a review of Mr. Perkins's late pamphlet on the subject to which is added, an appendix, Containing A Variety of Experiments, made in London, Bath, Bristol, &c. with a View of ascertaining the Efficacy of this Practice. By Charles Cunningham Langworthy, Surgeon, of Bath.
Langworthy, Charles Cunningham, 1771-1847.Date: 1798- Books
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.
Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837.Date: 1804- Pictures
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A man is violently rubbed with magnets. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
Jacque, Charles Emile, 1813-1894.Date: [c. 1843]Reference: 16548iPart of: Les malades et les médecins- Books
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Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath / by John Haygarth.
Date: 1800- Ephemera
Publishing ephemera. Box 1.
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China during the Cultural Revolution: Premier Zhou Enlai portrayed as one of the workers. Colour lithograph, 1977, after He Kongde.
He, Kongde.Date: May 1977Reference: 661300i