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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    C '3 ] a few minutes, and the forenefs foon left it and the cure was entire. I am perfuaded that the invention is important, and will be of great benefit to mankind, JOEL BENEDICT, Papr of a Church in Plainpld. Augujl 10, 1796. T: Rev. WALTER KING. HIS may certify, that the fubferiber has been prefent, in fundry inftances, where pains have been apparently removed by the application of metal- lic inftruments, invented and improved by Doftor Eli/ha Perkins of Plainfield, and that the ufe of faid in- ilruments appears to me, to promife cxtenfive benefit to fociety. WALTER KING, Papr of the Jecond Church in Norwich, Norwich, Augujl 12, 1796. 1 Rev. SOLOMON MORGAN. m&- HEREBY certify whom it may concern, that I have had opportunity of making ufe of Dr. Elijha Perkins's tra&ors, in cafes of pain in the head, and burns, and have fucceeded to the relief of the patients ; and from what I have heard from others, I believe that faid tractors are ufeful to the removing of many of the pains to which we are fubjeft; and think that a more general ufe of them, may be for the benefit of mankind. SOLOMON MORGAN, Papr cj thepjl church in Canterbury* Canterbury, Augujl 10, 1796.