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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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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    on the authority of great names, however refpedable and influencial thefe may be ; for he flatters him- • / , • felf, when favoured with fuitable fubje&s, he fhall be able to give a fpecies of evidence, to every perfon, far more fatisfaCtory than the tefti- mony of others; viz. that of ocular or experimental demonftration. For this purpofe, the writer has eroded the Atlantic, and become a refldent of London, that he may devote his time and attention to the difluflon of this important difeovery, and its application to the relief of the miferies of mankind ; to which the prefent Eflay may be confidered as an introduction. < y .. . . . •
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