The family remedy; or, Perkins's patent metallic tractors, : for the relief of topical diseases of the human body; and of horses.

  • Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810.
Date:
[1800?]
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Credit: The family remedy; or, Perkins's patent metallic tractors, : for the relief of topical diseases of the human body; and of horses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OR, Perkins's Patejit Metallic Tractors, ron THE RELIEF OF TORICiVL DISICASES OF 'J'llE JLUJIAN BODY} AN!) or HORSES. Jujl Plih/ijiicd, Trice Qn.k Shilling ; THE EFFICACY OF PEEKINS’s PATENT ■NIF/rAIXIC TRACTORS, Exemplified by ‘250 Cafes on the Human Body, and on H.o.usks ; in which a late Attempt o£ Dr. Havgarth, of Bath, to detraft from the Merits of the Pradlice, by aiferting its Aflion on the Imagination, is fully confuted. Hr BENJAMIN DOEGLAS PERKINS, m. Of Leicester Square,. Son of Dr. PERKINS, the Discoverer. I^ublished by J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Cliurch Yard; Wright, Piccadilly; Darton and IIarvky, Gracechurch Street; Ogilv y. aixd Son, llolborn, Loudon; Ckutwell, ButhjBELLandBnAD- FLTE,. Edinburgh ; and \Y. Gilbert, Dublin. FTY H E Complaints moll rul)ic6l to the Influence of the TRACTORS, arc Acute and Citfon’ic Rheumatism, including Lumbago and Sciatica ; Gout, S?r ai Ns, Contusions, Bu r ns, Sc A EDS, In FI amm AX ION s of the Eyes; alfo of the Ski k, as Erysipelas and Tetters; Pain¬ ful Inf LAMM ATGRY Tumours, as Biles and Whitlows; violent SpaHmopic Convulsions, as Epileptic Fits, Cramp, and Locked Jaw ; Pleurisy ; Stings and Bites of Venomous I NS ECT-s Fi. UOR Alb,us; Pains in,the Head, Fac e, FIa r s, Br e as t, Side , Back,.and Limbs, •t-The Dilcafes of Horfes, Cuefi as cprrefpond w ith thefe. r The very rapid increafe of the reputation of the Metallic 'J'raiffors, their unperifiiable nature, the fim- plicity and innocence of their operation, even in the hands of the moll illiterate, their eminent tendency to diminifli the number of Medical Fees in the numerous famiies in this kingdom, where they are owned, added to thewell knowm univerfal maxim of the Faculty to oppol'e every Patented Remedy, iHceirarily expofe them to virulent attacks and artful mifreprelentations. As thefe can be accomplilhed through no mediUAU more etFe«ftually than in Reviewsyand limilaf Journals, it may eafily be conceived that I'uch s malked mode-would be eagerly embraced, and that every argument and exjdanation unfavourable to the practice, which great ingenuity and learning could fuggtR, would alFuredly be einjiloyed. It becomes therefore expedient, that a fevv unmutilated Cafes, a few limple Fads, be here adduced, from among the many hundred of a limilar defcription, which are publilhed in the book above-mentioned,' in order that men, in the habit of .forming,opinions from the exercife of their owm realbn, may have an opportunity t»tWo doing, without referring fb tliofe which are the refulr of prejudice and felf-intcrefl. Before entering upon thefe Cafes, however, it may be proper to obferve, that it is by no means Intended to fuggeft, that all Reviews have become the vehicle of fuch attacks ; feveral have iaithiuliy rejiorted the nature of the Cafes .which have been publilhed, and cxprelFed their ojhnioii on the merits of the Difco- very ; as the following Extrads \yill mew.- To mod people in years, the Infirm in every [ which met with fevere contufions by a fall. Oii period of life, all thofe who are confined by con- thewliole, we liave no helitation in acknowledging traded poftures to unhealthy fituations, and feden- that the experiments adduced in this work, are of tary habjts, and efpecialiy ,the \veaker fex, whofe /uch a nature, and fo relpedably attelfed, as to go feeble frames a re'often debilitated and ciufhed by very far towards removing the doubts w'e formerly their Condition in life ; a remedy nearly immediate exprelTed of the efficacy ot this novel pradice.”—^ is here.prbpofed, and' authenticated by cliaraders i Nct;eltics of Literature, (No. CCCXXIli. jOd. *799. who .cannot be fufpeded of ignnrance or conni- I “ Sulpicion never fails to attend every j)ul)lica- vance with impofture. Of all medical difeoveries j tion, which relates to an article fold by the author, urged,on public attention frpm , motives palpably 1 In the prefent work w-e fee nothing wliich ihouk! lucrative,we arg naturally and properly fufpicious; j induce usto doubt die fads flated By Mr. Perkins, as of.noftrurns and arbitrary preferiptions there is j Thefe Metallic Tractors have Ix-en tried by many no end. Thefe Traders, however, have'-become, from the svonderful tffeds aferibed to them, objeds of.iuiiand general folicitude. And, we are glad, for the honbvir of the Difeovery, and riior'6 for the amelioration of our common nature, s:i»kieA they aw-, ^lyprom’feiNoSei; them.brought forward in fo quef- tionlcfs a ihapgP’—.l-ondon RevkiVy for Nov. 1799. “ The cafes-wlijich,have occurred In England, are very, numerous,and ,pf Eefpedable aHthdrity.-— Among thefe wefiaye lpme,of a different clafs from tfiofe hitherto .publilhed, viz. upon Horles. It Yvould .be-inviduous not to .admit, that thefe refults inufl elfedually do away the idea, that theTratlors protiuoe. their.effeds through imagination. One gefttlemail Qb-fecyes,, that he gpuld perceive a fwel- Lng diminidij'when ufmg the.m upon his hunter, icitntinc cnaractcrs m America, as wea as m leve^ ral parts of F.urope. They are now fold, undent Patent , in FaigJand, where they have aifo been fiic- cefsfuUy ufed in many inflances; and it would Be at once cruel and Unjull to fuggeft on flight grounds, and fhll more fo without any ground at all, fuch reflcilions is might tend to Itlfcn the reward due to a meritorious invention.” Alter a tong quota¬ tion; they thus conclude. ‘■‘Indeed of diTeafes where relief has been obtained by tlte ufe- of the Metallic Traders, there are fo many cafes in this work au¬ thenticated by. w.ei'l known refpedabie charadei s, that it mufl be the extreme of audacity and tolly abfolutely to deny-their Otl. J~<)L ' ' * '