Perkins Metal 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 promised to cure such ailments as inflammation and rheumatism.
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.302606.124
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.124
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tractors
label: Object Name
content: therapeutic device, fraudulent
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm