Experiments with the metallic tractors : in rheumatic and gouty affections, inflammations, and various topical diseases; as published by surgeons Herholdt and Rafn, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen / 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, A.M. of Leicester-Square, London, son of the discoverer. London.
- 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, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen / 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, A.M. of Leicester-Square, London, son of the discoverer. London. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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