Perkins's patent metallic tractors / [Benjamin Douglas Perkins].

  • Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810
Date:
[1801]
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Credit: Perkins's patent metallic tractors / [Benjamin Douglas Perkins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Perkins’s Patent Metallic Tractors. • to Co p tp B. if loHL, t\r A, B. v. 3 <u A. a neat Red Morocco Case, containing Set of the Tractors; B. B. Tractor, in a back and front View.—-Two of these Instruments, one of which is Yellow and the other of a whitish Colour, constitute the Set The Mode of applying them for the removal of a Disease on. the ffuma Body and Horses-, is explained, to the Comprehension of the smalleft Capa city, in a Paper of Directions, which accompanies the Tractors, TH E present representation TRA ‘ of PERKINS’S PATENT METALLIC ACTORS, is given through this medium with a view to satisfy the •daily applications made to the Patentee by his numerous Correspondents ,respe£tmg their form, bulk, the proper mode of conveying them,' Sec &; The Observer will here be enabled to form a ready idea of their very portable nature; and, considering their durability and very extensive efficacy in the. re¬ moval of Diseases, now, so universally admitted, “ how necessary are they (in the language of the Rev. Dr. Trotter) “ as a Remedy in every Family, and “ especially as a vade mejeum for Clergymen, whose professional avocations lead “ them so •frecjuenfc-ly among the affliCted.” The Case is carried with perfeft convenience in the waistcoat pocket. An additional motive for the above representation of the Genuine Trac¬ tors, are the impositions which are not unfrequently practised by the sub¬ stitution of counterfeits. These, though not attempted openly, have, in several instances, been pn\ yately put into circulation, by persons interested in depreciating the Credit of the Genuine Tr ac» .Tors, and consequently occasioning their disuse. As no benefit would be derived from such spurious Imitations, the unsuspe&ing Patient, it has been supposed, would be satisfied of tha inefficacy of the Metallic Practice. Such artifices, while they infringe on the right of the Patentee .,yt the same time, defraud the Public; and he must therefore not be thought unreasonably severe iri ydeterminining to employ the means the Law affords for the prevention of such abuses in future, as innocent artificers and tradesmen, from not knowing the nature of his Patent, which secures every possible external application of the Metallic Influence in the removal of Diseases, may be led into a violation of the law, by making something of a different shape, &c. it is right to inform them that they are equally liable to damages with their employers. On this particular they may possibly derive some satisfaction by the following ExtraCt from his Patent, on which is stamped the Great Seal of England. “ We do strictly recommend that no person or persons, during the continuance of this our Let* Cl ters Patent [fourteen years] either dire&ly or indire&ly, make, ufe, or put in praCUce the said invention, or any part of the same, or otherwise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble, or shall maka “ or caufe to be made any addition thereto, or subtraction from the same, without the direCt con- “ sent and agreement of the faid Benjamin Dougl as Perkins, his heirs, assigns, See. in writino* “ under his or their hands and seal, upon such pains and penalties as may be justly infliCted upo'rt “ *ach offenders, for their contempt of this our Royal Command; and further, to be answer able “to the said Benjamin Douglas Perkins, his heirs, assigns, &c. for his or their dimao-™ « thereby occafioned” ' To guard-against Impositions applicants will please to observe that every genuine set of TraCtors is Stamped with the words Perkins Patent Tractors; and, which will be the most sure mean# of detefting frauds, to the printed Directions for their use, which accompany them, is subjoined a Receipt, signed “Benjamin Douglas Perkins.” in the hand-writing of the Patentee. Ta counterfeit this, it is unnecessary to add, is Felony. The TRACTORS have been found a safe, speedy, and effectual Remedy in the following Disorders .' Acute and Chronic Rheumatism, including Lumbago and Sciatica, Gouty Sprains, Con¬ tusions, Burns, Scalds, Inflammations of the Eyes; also of the Skin, as ’Erysipelas and Tetters; Painful Inflammatory Tumours, as Piles and Whitlows; Violent Spas¬ modic Convulsions; as ppileptk Fits, Cramp and Locked Jaw; Pleurisy; Stings and Bites of Venomous Inserts, Fluor Aldus ; Pains in the Read, Face, Teelk°Earz- Breast7 Side, Back, Limbs, and all analogous Diseases of Horsts*« View of the Back; or Jlo and Side