Certificates of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.

  • Elisha Perkins
Date:
[1796]
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Credit: Certificates of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L »i ] in my left fhoulder. For the two lafl; years it has gra-, dually increafed till it became very diPirefling, and has been attended with a flifFnefs, to fuch a degree that I could not raife my hand to the top of my head with- out great difficulty. On or about the 18th of June laft, I myfelf operated on my moulder when it was in extreme pain, with Doctor Perkins s patent tractors.—- The pain, to my great furprize, wholly left me within fix minutes, and my moulder was foon freed from its former flifFnefs, fo that I could move that arm and moulder with the fame eafe that I could the other.—1- The pain has but once returned, and then very lightly, in confequence of fevere exercife : It was imr removed by applying the tractors. I further certify, that I have been afflicted with a pain in ray head for twenty years pafL It has ufually come on in the fore part of the day, and continued ten or twelve hours. Has often been very diitrefling. About the time of the above operation, I applied the instruments to my head, when in fevere pain. I was in a few minutes eafed, and the pain has not yet returned.—For three years before this operation, I do not think I have been three weeks at a time free from this complaint. From what I have experienced, and heard of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's iuftru- menrs, I doubt not but they will prove of great utility to mankind. JAREB DYER, Phyfician. ' Canterbury, Av.guji 11, 1796. 1 Doctor. EBENEZER ROBINSON. HEREBY certify, that I have been acquaint- ed with Doctor Perkins method of removing pains and inflammations by pointed metallic inltruments, for near a year ; that I have frequently operated m and have generally had fuccefs in removing pains and inflammations of various kinds, among w.h