Cases, (not before in this journal) of practice with Perkins's patent metallic tractors / [Benjamin Douglas Perkins].

  • Benjamin Douglas Perkins
Date:
[1801?]
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Credit: Cases, (not before in this journal) of practice with Perkins's patent metallic tractors / [Benjamin Douglas Perkins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with Rheumatic Complaints in his Head ; I applied the Tracers with fitch fuccefs, that the grateful man has fpread their fame fo far and wide, that perfons afflicted with drop- fies, fenrvies, See. have, been-induced to expert a cure. 44 Time will not allow me to add more. I hope I fhall be able to add, In all truth and honor, without any aid from legerdemain or imagination, to your catalogue of real cures. The poor here defire me to convey their blelfings to you, and, in all fincerity, lift up their hands and their hearts, with a prayer for a bleding on thefe means of relief to the diffreffed. You lent the Tractors for the behoof of the poor, and for their benefit ffiall they be principally employed.-—I am, my dear Sir, your’s faithfully, I 44 Joseph Mac Intyre.” HENRY GR1MSTON, Efq. oi Elton, mar Beverley, Yorkshire, (then in London) ?e B. D. Perkins, the Patentee. £The observations of a charadter fo diftinguifhed for his phrlofophical talents as well as for his extenfive concerns in mea fares of philanthropy, render this Communication in- 1 terefting.—Its great length, however, compels the infertion of an abftraCt only.] Dear Sir, “ Pall-Malf Oct. i, i8o©. *4 At your invitation 1 here fend a few of the cafes, which I noted down in my minute book, of trials with your Patent Metallic Tradtors. From the experience I have had of their efficacy in the cure of different diforders, I fhall certainly continue the pradtice, as I can thereby adminifier relief, by an eafy and fimple method, to many of my fellow- creatures. I fhall not at prelent prefume to fay how the TradtdTS operate in performing a cure, any more than how the magnet attradts iron, but shall content myfelf that they do. fo♦ I am convinced, however, it is not to be imputed to imagination. [Twelve cafes, de- feribing important cures then follow', viz. four of fevere rheumatifm ; three of violently- inflamed eyes; a tooth-ach ; a rheumatic tooth-ach ; an ulcerated lip; a cramp; aqd t sl violent fprain. The limits admit of but one or two.] CaseI.—Rheumatifm. 44 Matthew Danby, of Etton, Farmer, had a violent rheumatic pain in his left fhoulder and arm, which was much tumefied and inflamed, and which deprived him of reft night and day. He was Traetored twenty minutes, when the pain, the fwellingand inflammation, were entirely removed. ^ Case II.—Ulcerated Lip. u Dining at the Honourable Philip Leflie's, at Great Driffield, «n the 4th of March, he complained of luffering much pain from an ulcerated biifter on the in fide of his under lip, w hich was tumefied to the fize of the end of his little finger. This fame on the 28th of February, and was fo painful as to prevent his fleep for three ifights. By my advice he tried the Trailers forty minutes,when the fwelhng was totally repelled ; in about three hours the pain alfo fubfided, and all he could perceive of the complaint was a firong metallic tafle in the mouth. 44 The chief caiife of failures of fuccefs in the ufe of the Tractors, which may fome- times have happened, I believe, is the impatience of the operator, w ho, expecting them to cure in a moment, like magic, will not ufe them the requifite time, nor perfevere as often as is neceflary fn the repetition of the applications. Wiffiing all fuccefs to the Metallic Practice, I remain, Dear Sir, Your obedient, and humble fervant, , Henry Grimston.” The Tractors1 are effectual in ACUTE and CHR.ONIC RHEUMATISM, including LUM¬ BAGO and SCIATICA ; GOUT, SPRAINS, CONTUSIONS, BURNS, SCALDS, IN FLAM-* MATIONS of the EYES ; alfo of the SKIN, as ERYSIPELAS and TETTERS ; Painful IN¬ FLAMMATORY TUMOURS, as BILES and WHITLOWS; Violent SPASMODIC CON- 4 VULSIONS, as EPILEPTIC FITS, CRAMP and LOCKED JAW; PLEURISY,; STINGS and BITES of Venemous INSECTS, FLUOR ALBUS ; Pains in the HEAD, FACE, TEETH, EARS, BREAST, SIDE, BACK, LIMBS, and all analogous DISEASES of PIORSES. A C A U T I 0 N. (JffT INSTANCES have,occurred during the prefent Year, where the Traitors have fuffere.d diferedit tdiro* illegal and dfhenmrabie attempts to circulate fpimous imitations.—To guard agai'njl Impojitions, Applicants will pleafe to.cbfcrve, that every .Genuine Set oj Trail or s is flumped with the words 44 Perkins' Patent Tractors and to the printed Directions accompanying them is fibjoincd a Receipt for the Five Guineast fg ned in the Hand-writing of the Patentee..—To. counterfeit this is Felony. THE TRACTORS, fo neceflary in every Family, and among Horfes, maybe had, with new and improved Directions for ufing them ; rendering the mode of Application perfectly intelligible to every Capacity, for Live Guineas the Set, of Benjamin Douglas Perkins, A. M. the Patentee, in Leicefter Square ; of Fr ede rick Sm 1 th, • Chemift and Druggiit, in the Haymarket, London; and of Charles Whittell, Chemift and Druggiit, Bridge-Street, Chefter.-Their portable Nature renders their Conveyance to any part of Great Britain, by Coach, and even by Poft, perfectly conve¬ nient. Letters (Pofl paid) enclonng their Amount in a Bill or Check, will be punctually attended to. A Allowance to Perfons who purchaf to fill again, efpecially if a number of Sets be taken. TED BY GEORGE COOKE, DUNSTAN’s HILL, TOWER-STREET.
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