The influence of metallic tractors on the human body, in removing various painful inflammatory diseases ... / Lately discovered by Dr. [Elisha] Perkins ... and demonstrated in a series of experiments and observations. By which the importance of the discovery is fully ascertained, and a new field of enquiry opened in the modern science of galvanism, or, animal electricity. By Professors Meigs, Woodward, Rogers, &c, &c.

  • Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810.
Date:
1798
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Credit: The influence of metallic tractors on the human body, in removing various painful inflammatory diseases ... / Lately discovered by Dr. [Elisha] Perkins ... and demonstrated in a series of experiments and observations. By which the importance of the discovery is fully ascertained, and a new field of enquiry opened in the modern science of galvanism, or, animal electricity. By Professors Meigs, Woodward, Rogers, &c, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    la the courfe of an extensive practice thefe were frequently found, on which he never failed to make fuch experiments as were calculated to accomplifh his objeCt. He proceeded to make Inftruments of what are called the perfeCt metals as well as of the bafe ones, and likewife of various compound metals, and tried them all, fometimes with lefs and * * fometimes with more fuccefs, than he had ever hoped or expected. Thefe experiments he con¬ tinued for feveral years $ convinced from what he had already noticed that he was right in his prin¬ ciple, and ardently hoping that further experi¬ ments, and obfervations, would enable him to apply it to the alleviation of human affliction, and the general benefit of mankind. The refult corroborated and indeed exceeded his mod fanguine expectations; for he difcovered that, by drawing over the parts affeCted in parti¬ cular directions certain inftruments which he formed from metallic fubftances into certain fhapes, he could remove chronic rheumatifm, fome gouty affeCtions, pleurilies, inflammations in the eyes, eryfipeias, and tetters; violent fpaf- rnodic convulftons, as epileptic fits; the locked B 3 jaw 5