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perkinism

perkinism


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Perkinism  \Per"kin*ism\,  n.  (Med.) 
  A  remedial  treatment,  by  drawing  the  pointed  extremities  of 
  two  rods,  each  of  a  different  metal,  over  the  affected  part 
  tractoration,  --  first  employed  by  Dr  Elisha  Perkins  of 
  Norwich,  Conn.  See  {Metallotherapy}.