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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    ter of this Difcovery, from the Monthly Review, the falfe quotation, Sc. of which, we have already had occafion to notice, [fee page 296 of this book] and which at- tack upon this practice, from its kindred nature to what is here exhibited, it is not improbable, was written by the fame au- thor! | I hope none will be found fo egregioufly miftaken, as to fuppofe me fo loft to a fenfe of my own dignity, and a refpect for many worthy characters (among whom it muft be known Royalty and literary men of high flanding are here equally fplafh- ed with the daring charge of “ mfatuatıon”) as to A RØR to enter into any difcuf- fion with the author of this ungentleman- like and unfounded attack. This unwarrantable mode of offering affertion for proof, fo unauthorifed and even. unprecedented, except in the condemnation of a Galileo, the perfecution of a Coperni- cus, and a few other atts of inquifitional au- 4 | thority,