Evidences of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.

  • Perkins, Elisha, 1741-1799.
Date:
[1797]
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Credit: Evidences of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    diforder, have been at my houfe this week to have the operation performed on them ; and the diforder has abated on the firft application, fo that the prefent profpectis, that cures will be effected for them, by fur- ther ufe of the instruments. A violent pain proceed- ing from a (train in the foot, has by a few minutes application of the inftruments been removed fo as not to return. I have the honor to be, Sir, your moll obedient and humble fervant, BEZALEEL WOODWARD, Gen. ELIHU MARVIN, Member of the Conneaicut Medical Society. Sir, Norwich, Dec. 20, T796. OlNCE I have been in the ufe of your Patent Metallic Points, which is about four months, I have by way of experiment, made ufe of them in cafes of pains and inflammations of almoft every kind, and in iubjeffcs of all ages and defcriptions, and as might be expecled, with various fuccefs. One fact however, I am fully convinced of, (in oppofition to former preju- dices) viz, That in a variety of circumftances a pro- per application of them is capable of operating a change in the human frame, which I can no more doubt, becaufe I cannot aflign a fatisfactory philoso- phical reafon therefor, than I can doubt the operation of opium, becaufe the properties of that gum by which, and the modus operandi in which it produces ileep are to me wholly unknown. I am confident reafoning a priori would as foon eitabliih one fa6t as the other. Cafes in which the Points have in my practice appeared fuccefsful, are fuch as burns, head- aches, agues in the face, ophthalmics, pains in the limbs, bread and fides, and in cvnanche tonfillaris,