Elisha Perkins
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| Elisha Perkins | |
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| Born | 16 January 1741 Norwich, Connecticut Colony |
| Died | 6 September 1799 (58) New York City, New York |
| Nationality | British (Colonial); American |
Elisha Perkins (January 16, 1741 - September 6, 1799) was an American physician and inventor of Perkins's Patent Metallic Tractors, sets of three-inch, single-pointed metal rods intended to cure various afflictions by means of "drawing off the noxious electrical fluid that lay at the root of the suffering."[1]
Selected Bibliography
- Perkins, E., The Family Remedy; or, Perkins's Patent Metallic Tractors, For the Relief of Topical Disease of the Human Body: And of Horses, https://archive.org/details/b30389562
Reading
- Miller, William Snow (October 1935), "Elisha Perkins and His Metallic Tractors", Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 8 (1): 41-57, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2601307/
- Young, James Harvey (1961), "Galvanizing Trumpery", The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation, Princeton University Press
References
- ↑ Young (1961), The Toadstool Millionaires, which cites as the source: Perkins, E. (1797), Evidences of the Efficacy of Dr. Perkins's Patent Metallic Instruments, Philadelphia