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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    coverer, as the reviver of his exploded pra&ice* With thefe men Dr. P. was fuppofed to have loft his fenfes; and his hypothefis, which they have fmee honourably acknowledged to be founded on reafon, and fupported by experiment, was then efteemed the delufive dream of chimerical pro- jeflion! * Shortly after the adjournment of the Medical Convention, to which I have juft referred. Dr. P. influenced by the advice of his friends, and de- firous of being fituated in a more extenfive field for exhibiting his difeovery, repaired to Philadel¬ phia. The public hofpitals, alms-houfes, infirma¬ ries, and other inftitutions * which ornament that populous city, and do honour to its inhabitants, prefentecl excellent opportunities for making ex¬ periments on a variety of new cafes, and fubje£f> ing his hypothefis to a feverer teft. As Congrefs was now in feflion, he performed his operations, not only in the prefence of the moft eminent phyficians, but alfo before the moft diftinguifhed * Since that period the Trattors, by order of the direc¬ tors, phyficians, &c. who attended the operations, have been purchafed for the ufes of thofe inftitutions in Phila¬ delphia, New York, Bofton, Newbury Port, Salem, &c. perfonages r