The influence of metallic tractors on the human body, in removing various painful inflammatory diseases ... / Lately discovered by Dr. [Elisha] Perkins ... and demonstrated in a series of experiments and observations. 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 Professors Meigs, Woodward, Rogers, &c, &c.

  • Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810.
Date:
1798
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Credit: The influence of metallic tractors on the human body, in removing various painful inflammatory diseases ... / Lately discovered by Dr. [Elisha] Perkins ... and demonstrated in a series of experiments and observations. 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 Professors Meigs, Woodward, Rogers, &c, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jaw ; the pain and fwelling attending contufions $ inflammatory tumours ; the violent pains occa- honed by a recent fprain; the painful effe&s of a burn or feald; pains in the head, teeth, ears, bread:, fide, back, and limbs; and indeed mod kinds of painful topical affections, which came under his care and obfervation. The inftruments produc¬ ing thefe effeCts are termed TRACTORS. At this period, viz. about the clofe of the year 5795, Dr. Perkins was chairman of the Medical Society in the county of Windham, and was its \ t firft representative in the general Medical Con¬ vention, which conflituted him 3 Fellow of the \ ‘ Connecticut Medical Society *. To * The Connecticut Medical Society is compofed of moll of the refpeCtable phylicians in that date. Thefe phyficians ' hold quarterly meetings in the feveral counties where they refide, having a chairman and other officers neceffiary for their affiociation.—Thefe county focieties, as competing a part of the Con. Med. Soc. femi- annually fend reprefer, tatives to a general meeting, which being formed of delegates from each county in the Hate, is called the Connecticut Medical Convention. , The objeCt of this, as of fimllar affiociations, is to receive communications relative to any important improvements or difeoveries, and by giving them publicity, thereby promote the advancement of medical knowledge. Eneas Munson, M. P* is prefident of this important iniiitution, whofe long and .• i ’ Ji. / V. \ \