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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    attacked her weekly, and ufually continuing for fome days, defired me to try Dr. Per- xıns’s Tractors. I complied with her re- queft, and to my great aftonifhment, in the {pace of five minutes all pain was gone. During the operation, I obferved that her pulfe beat fafter than ufual, her hands, which were always cold, grew hot, red, and fwelled, and began to perfpire to fuch’a degree, that drops hung upon the points of her fingers. She has to this day, which is three weeks fince the operation, not felt the leaf. fymptom of pains which before. tormented her fo conftantly. asa very great proportion«of pgins which are often called rheumatifms,. and treated. as fuch in military hofpitals eipecially, have their origin (as appeared in many of the experiments laft communicated, and as mutt alfo have been obferved, by every experienced. practitioner) in /y= philitic affections. In thefe cafes alfo of Surgeon BLEEK, it does not ap- pear that any other applications were at the fame time employed, .fo that no extraneous matter could have been prefent to. counteract the ufual influence of the Tractors.