Elisha Perkins (January 16, 1741 – September 6, 1799) was a United States physician who created a fraudulent medical device, the Perkins Patent Tractors...
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world's largest Ponzi scheme, defrauding investors out of $18 billion. Elisha Perkins, the inventor of his own quack therapy that utilized "tractors". John...
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Bushnell Perkins, later Grosvenor (1771–1831) was an amateur American pastellist. Born in Plainfield, Connecticut, Perkins was the daughter of Dr. Elisha Perkins...
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Edwin Perkins (disambiguation), several people Elisha Perkins (1741–1799), American physician Elizabeth Perkins, American actress Emily Perkins, Canadian...
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Elisha Reynolds Potter (November 5, 1764 – September 26, 1835) was a statesman in the Federalist Party from Kingston, Rhode Island, who served several...
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chief Uncas with a tomahawk in Norwich Elisha Perkins (1741–1799), popular quack doctor whose magnetic therapy "Perkins Tractors" (made up of two 3-inch (76 mm)...
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Still and osteopathy. Daniel D. Palmer and chiropractic. Medical Quacks Elisha Perkins Albert Abrams and his defender Upton Sinclair. Ruth Drown Dinshah Pestanji...
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BackBlog: Elisha Perkins and the Metallic Tractors | Countway Library". countway.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-30. Dan_nehs (2017-05-09). "Perkins Metallic...
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wealthy family of Newburyport, Massachusetts, the son of the manufacturer Elisha Perkins Dodge and Katherine Searles Gray Dodge. He studied architecture at MIT...
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but ineffective quackery (including the royal touch, the tractors of Elisha Perkins, and the powder of sympathy), to demonstrate that positive anecdotal...
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