Perkins Tractors
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Elisha Perkins (1741-1799) was an American physician who, in 1796, obtained a patent for metal “tractors” that could allegedly cure such ailments as inflammation and rheumatism. A Smithsonian curator acquired this example in 1902 for the "Psychic Medicine" collection.
label: Description
content: Ref: Jacques M. Quen, “Elisha Perkins, Physician, Nostrum-Vendor, or Charlatan?” <i>Bulletin of the History of Medicine</i> 37 (1963): 159-166.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.143091
label: catalog number
content: 143091
label: accession number
content: 2014.0234
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tractors, Perkins', Batch of
label: Object Name
content: metallic tractors
label: Other Terms
content: Tractors, Perkins', Batch of; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 3/8 in; .635 cm x 8.89 cm x .9525 cm