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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![( 81 ) fluid from my leg, and have fcattered it through my whole frame. Whereupon I called a lad of my family, and made him operate upon my other leg, which drew down the puff on rny face in a few minutes. I thence found, if I ufed the 5traftors upon other perfons with my own hand, I fhould draw the eledlric fluid into my infirm leg. Thefe experiments offer fome data to rea- fon from. < • V - ? , • < \liere follows a very ingenious differ tat ion on the cauje of the above phenomena which the limits of this work will not permit me to introduce.] <c Now, Sir, as the Metallic 'Traffors aOc upon an eflablifhed law of nature, there is no fear they will want power fo long as the eleftric rod will draw electric fire. All the unbelief and buffoonery of the envious will not hinder their effects. I ‘ ' « r think there is a foundation laid for great im¬ provement in the medical art by the inquifitive -phyfiologifb cc P. S. 1 have tried the Traffors in fmall burns in my own family, and find they give immediate relief. An inflammation in the eyes was relieved much by once operating; the patient came again, G , and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31921188_0093.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
