Certificates of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.

  • Perkins, Elisha, 1741-1799.
Date:
[1796]
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Credit: Certificates of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in my left fhoulder. For the two laft years it has g: dually increafed till it became very diftrefling, and has been attended with a ftiffnefs, to fuch a degree th-at I could not raife my hand to the top of my head with- out great difficulty. On or about the 18th of June laft. I my felt operated on my fhoulder when it was in extreme pain, with Doctor Perkins's patent tractors.— The pain, to my great furprize, wholly left me within fix minutes, and my moulder was foon freed from its former ftiffnefs, fo that I could move that arm and moulder with the lame eafe that I could the other.—* The pain has but once returned, and then very lightly, in confequence of fevere exercife : It was immediately removed by applying the tractors. I further certify, that I have been afflicted with a pain in my head for twenty years pall. It has ufually come on in the fore part of the day, and continued ten or twelve hours. Has often been very diftrefling. About the time of the above operation, I applied the inftruments to my head, when in fevere pain. I was in a few minutes eafed, and the pain has not yet returned.—For three years before this operation, I do not think I have been three weeks at a time free from this complaint. From what I have experienced, and heard of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's inftru- ments, I doubt not but they will prove of great utility to mankind. JAREB DYER, Phyfician. Canterbury, Av.gufl 11, 1796. Doctor. EBENEZER ROBINSON. X. HEREBY certify, that I have been acquaint- ed with Doctor Perkins' method of removing pains and inflammations by pointed metallic inftruments, for near a year; that I have frequentlyoperated niy felt, and have generally had fuccefs in removing pains and inflammations of various kinds, among which,'are