The efficacy of Perkins's patent metallic tractors, in topical diseases on the human body, and animals; exemplified by 250 cases ... To which is prefixed, a preliminary discourse, in which, the fallacious attempts of Dr. Haygarth, to detract from the merits of the tractors, are detected, and fully confuted / By Benjamin Douglas Perkins.

Benjamin Douglas Perkins

Date:: 1800

Credit: The efficacy of Perkins's patent metallic tractors, in topical diseases on the human body, and animals; exemplified by 250 cases ... To which is prefixed, a preliminary discourse, in which, the fallacious attempts of Dr. Haygarth, to detract from the merits of the tractors, are detected, and fully confuted / By Benjamin Douglas Perkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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receive no benent ; and, if fo, by no means to fay that he had. Tliis is the only method whiclv may y.iUhorize a probability that the reports may be re- lied on. Numerous cafes, where fuch relief was reported, have been commuiticated to me; but, nnlefs a cure was effecled, or fome flriking incident was oltfervable, they have ever been regarded as unworthy as evidence ; nor will any fuch cafes be found in the following pages. To perfuadepatients of this clafs to declare, that they are relieved, and even to think fo, nothing more'is neceffary than to imprels on their minds a favourable opinion of the remedy, to induce them to believe that thoufands have been cured by the fame wonderfully efficacious means, and they will be very ready to acknowledge that they begin to feel what others have previouny experienced. It is this trick which has been played otf on’ FiJiitious Tradors, and public hofpitals have been fought as tliebeft theatre where fuch experiments ought to be exhibited ; and under circuraftances too which are replete with iliiberality andiiijuftice. It is due to truth and iheDifcovery to ftate, that, nbewith- flanding the very fair, and, in every refpebt, ho- iu)urabie propofals ever made both by my friend Surgeon Lang worth v and myfelf, not only in our converfation, but in our publications; and our very carneff defire of any trial or trials, which fhouk! be made, with the Tradtors, with a view of afeertaining their merits, it has never been thought proper to admit either of us to be prefent on thefeoc- cafions ! ! Who can read Mr. L a n g w p r t h y ’ s very honourable propofals* [fee page 86 of this Book], and * It is impoflible to read Mr. Langworthy’s Traci without bearing teftimony to his candour, and the favourable propofitions he holds out to medical men to aflifl him in fubjecting the Pradtice to a fair ttfl. This could not but be acknowledged by thofe who.

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