Efficacy of Doctor Perkins's Patent Metallic Instruments.

• imprint_number: 1797.004
• title: Evidences of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments.
• sequence_number: 4
• year: 1797
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: John Dixon Jr.
• author: Perkins, Elisha (1741-99), comp.
• notes: A compilation of testimonials from medical contemporaries as a promotional vehicle for the sale of Perkins's surgical instrument; one of seven such imprints in 1796 & 1797 issued from Newburyport to Richmond, with two editions published in New London near his home in Plainfield, Connecticut.
  
  
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