Specification of Benjamin Douglas Perkins : application of galvanism as curative agent.

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<p>Patent for "curing a variety of aches, pains, and diseases in the human body, by drawing over the parts affected or those contiguous thereto, in certain directions, various pointed metals, which, from the affinity they have with the offending matter, or from some other cause, extract or draw out the same, and thus cure the patient".</p>

Specification of Benjamin Douglas Perkins : application of galvanism as curative agent.

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