Tractors, Metallic
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 - Experiments with the metallic tractors in rheumatic and gouty affections, inflammations, and various topical diseases / as published by Surgeons Herholdt and Rafn ... translated into German by Professor Tode, physician to His Danish Majesty ; thence into the English language by Mr. Charles Kampfmuller: also reports of about one hundred and fifty cases in England; demonstrating the efficacy of the metallic practice, in a variety of complaints, both upon the human body, and on horses, &c. by medical, and other respectable characters; Edited by Benjamin Douglas Perkins ... Son of the discoverer.Herholdt, Johan Daniel, 1764-1836.Date: 1799
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 - A man is violently rubbed with magnets. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.Jacque, Charles Emile, 1813-1894.Date: [c. 1843]Reference: 16548iPart of: Les malades et les médecins
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 - 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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 - Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution. In four cantos : most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians / By Christopher Caustic.Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837.Date: 1804
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 - The modern philosopher; or terrible tractoration! In four cantos, most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By Christopher Caustick [pseud].Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837.Date: 1806

