Volume 1

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.

  • Johan Daniel Herholdt
Date:
1799
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( a. 9) immediately relieved. To afcertain whe- ther the relief was dependant on this, he drew a wooden fkewer over the other arm ; the woman experienced fimilar relief, which demonftrates that it no ways de- pended on any peculiar properties of the Tra@tors! I have tried them frequently on thofe whofe minds were not fo eafıly worked upon, and have never perceived the leaft effect. I prepared Traétors of tin, zinc, copper, and brafs, in every propor- tion; have never found this to produce any other effects than what might be pro- cured by a common nail,” I mutt now be indulged in one or two remarks. In the firft place, refpecting what the writer is pleafed to call Dr. Per- KINS’s opinion of the “ local excefs” of electricity, I beg leave to ftate, that no opinion whatever of Dr. PerKIns’s has ever been publithed on that fubject, In my former Traét [fee Influence of Metallic Tradors, pages $3 & 84] this circumftance tha Z 3 was