Volume 1

Experiments with the metallic tractors in rheumatic and gouty affections, inflammations, and various topical diseases / as published by Surgeons Herholdt and Rafn ... translated into German by Professor Tode, physician to His Danish Majesty ; thence into the English language by Mr. Charles Kampfmuller: also reports of about one hundred and fifty cases in England; demonstrating the efficacy of the metallic practice, in a variety of complaints, both upon the human body, and on horses, &c. by medical, and other respectable characters; Edited by Benjamin Douglas Perkins ... Son of the discoverer.

  • Herholdt, Johan Daniel, 1764-1836.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Experiments with the metallic tractors in rheumatic and gouty affections, inflammations, and various topical diseases / as published by Surgeons Herholdt and Rafn ... translated into German by Professor Tode, physician to His Danish Majesty ; thence into the English language by Mr. Charles Kampfmuller: also reports of about one hundred and fifty cases in England; demonstrating the efficacy of the metallic practice, in a variety of complaints, both upon the human body, and on horses, &c. by medical, and other respectable characters; Edited by Benjamin Douglas Perkins ... Son of the discoverer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 38 ) acute pain in different parts of ‘the body, which however went off in a couple of hours. The former ftiffnefs, on the con- trary, is now almoft entirely gone, fo much that fhe can tread upon the ground, and even walk fome fteps, which fhe had not been able to do for nine weeks before fe). (Signed) W. KLINGBERG, | Surgeon of Referve in the Navy, and Candidate at Frederic’s | Hofpital, gth March 1798. Ach e) The Tractors in this Sasi and indeed in all eters of pains in the hip, fhould have been extended quite to the toes. So long a time would not have been neceflary- for giving that relief which was obtained, and the pains would not have thus fcattered about the body, had they been conducted off at the extremity.