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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    CERTIFICATE Sy &c. I Gen. TYLER, and Mr. LORD. JOHN TYLER, of Predon, in the county of New-London and date of Connecticut, hereby certify, that on or about the 17th day of June lad, I was con- fined by a wound, which I had before that time recei- ved, by cutting my right leg tranfverfely, in which I had taken cold ; and at that time the fore was in a high flate of inflammation, and gave me great pain, to fucii a degree that I had been obliged to keep my leg in a horizontal pofition, in a chair, the mod of that day,—< when Doc~L EUJha Perkins, of Plainfield, called on me, and having operated on me a few minutes with his pa- tent metallic indruments, the pain in my leg wholly ceafed, and the rednels and inflammation of the wound entirely difappeared. 1 was free from pain that night, and indeed the pain and inflammation both ceafed from that operation, and never returned again. And I further certify, that my wife at that time was forely affli&ed with rheumatic pains in her hip, which had been upon her a number of years, and had afrecled her to fuch a degree as to render that fide fhorter than the other, and to make her unable at that time to raife herfelf from her chair without the greateft difficulty, or to walk acrofs the room without leaning on her dad', and with that fupport, not without the greated inconvenience; and Docl. Perkins operated upon her a few minutes, when die declared herfelf free from pain, and immediately rofe from her chair, with- out any aflidance or apparent difficulty, and walked