Elisha Perkins and His Metallic Tractors.

Abstract

Draw the white right from the crown! Hocus! pocus! at a loss! Draw the brazen rod across! Hocus! pocus! down and up! Draw them both from foot to top! Wooden nutmegs and counterfeit money are not the only frauds that have had their origin in Connecticut. To the members of the medical profession Perkins ' Metallic Tractors are of the most interest. Dr. Joseph Perkins, father of Elisha, graduated at Yale College in 1727, and immediately began the practice of medicine in his native town, Norwich, Connecticut. Thacher says: "He possessed brilliant talents, and was distinguished for scientific pursuits, and for undissembled piety, patriotism and benevolence.-He continued to practice extensively till near the close of life, and died in 1794,

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