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Elisha Perkins

American physician

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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.

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    Evidences of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.

    Elisha Perkins | Date: [1797]
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    Evidences of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.

    Elisha Perkins | Date: [1797]
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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.

    Benjamin Douglas Perkins | Date: 1798
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    Observations on animal electricity : In explanation of the metallic operation of Doctor Perkins / [John Vaughan].

    Vaughan, John, 1775-1807 | Date: 1973
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    Certificates of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.

    Elisha Perkins | Date: [1796]
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Equipment and Supplies
Tractors, Metallic

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