New cases, not before in this journal / [Benjamin Douglas Perkins].

  • Benjamin Douglas Perkins
Date:
[1801]
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Credit: New cases, not before in this journal / [Benjamin Douglas Perkins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    View of the Front or Flat Side. \ f - - f V U- 5 H ,^/r a- A J NOT BEFORE IN THIS J O U R N A I .* aawi B. A, n.. a neat Red Morocco Case, containing a Set of the Tractors; is B. a Tractor, in a back and front View.—Two of these Instruments, one of which is Yellow and the other of a whitish Colour, constitute the Set. The Mode of applying them for the removal of a Disease on the Human Body and Horses, is explained, to the Comprehension of the smalleft Capa¬ city, in a Paper of Directions, which accompanies the Tractors. THE prefent reprefentation of PERKlNS’s PATENT METAL¬ LIC TRACTORS, is given through this med ium with a view to fatisfy the daily applications made to the Patentee by his numerous Correfpondents, respecting their form, bulk, the proper mode of conveying them, &c. Scc. The Obferver will here be enabled to form a ready idea of their very portable nature ; and, confidering their durability and very extenfive efficacy in the removal of Difea- fes, now fo univerfally admitted, how neceffiary are they (in the language of the Rev. Dr. Trotter) “ as a Remedy in every Family, “ and efpecially as a vade mecum for Clergymen, whole profeffional “ avocations lead them lo frequently among the afffi£ted/, An additional motive for the above reprefentation of the Genuine Tractors, are the impofitions which are not unfrequently pradfifed by the fubftitution of counterfeits. Thefe, though not attempted openly, have, in feveral infiances, been privately put in circulation, by perfons interefted in depreciating the Credit of the Genuine Tractors, and con~ fequently occafioning their difufe. As no benefit would be derived from futh fpurious Imitations, the unfit fpetfing patient, it has been fuppofed, would be farisfied of the in- efficacy of the Metallic Practice. Such artifices, while they infringe on the right of the Patentee, at the fame tithe defraud the Public; and he mufi therefore not be thought unreafonably fevere in determining to employ the means the Law affords, for the preven¬ tion of Inch abufes in future. As innocent artificers and tradefmen, from not knowinw the nature of his Patent,' which fecures every poffible external application of,the Metal lie Influence in the removal of Difeafes, may be led into a violation of the law, by making fomethin-g of a different lhape, &c. it is right to inform theni that they are equally liable to damages with their employers To guard againfi Impofitions, applicants, will pleafe toobferve, that every genuine Set of Tractors is damped with the wordo, Perkins Patent Tractors ; and, which will be the mod lure means of detecting frauds, to the printed Directions for their ufe, which accompany them, is fubjoined a Receipt, figned, “Benjamin Douglas Perkins,39 in the hand-writing of the Patentee. To counterfeit this is Felony. THE TeZWtORS Have been found a fafe, fpeedy, and effectual Remedy in the following Diforders.' Acute and Chronic Rheumatism, including Lumbago and Sciatica, Gout, Sprains, Con¬ tusions, Burns, Scalds, Inflammations of the Eyes; also of the Skin, as Erysipelas and Tetters; Painful Inflammatory Tumours, as Biles and Whitlows; Violent Spas¬ modic Convulsions; as Epileptic Tits, Cramp and Locked Jaw; Pleurisy; Stints and Bites of Venomous Insects, Fluor Aldus ; Pains in the Head, Face, Teeth, Ears! Breast, Side, Back, Limbs, and all analogous Diseases of Horses. In proof of the Efficacy of the Tra&ors in thefe Complaints, there have been publish¬ ed, by the Patentee, during the la(t three years, four different works, in which have been prefented nearly Three Thoufand Cures, communicated by Characters of the higheft re- I'pedtability. The prefent limits do not conveniently admit of tile titles of only the two laft of thefe, which are given, gratis, to the purchafers of the Tractors ; one was pub* Jiffied in January, 1800, and entitled as follows; View of the Back or Round Side,
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