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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    Thefe are not cited with a view i to eftablifh in this kingdom the credit of the T’raSiors; but as the experiments are immediately con- ne£ed with an hiftorical account of the Difcovery, the deftgn of this treatife could not be.anfwered but by inferring them. They will alfo ferve as a fpecifi- cation of the difeafes which are fub- je£t to the Metallic Influence, and are defcriptive of the effedls which may be expe&ed in fimilar experi¬ ments. But the writer does not wifh to reft the credit of the difcovery merely on