METALLIC
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 32
Small ban. of metal which were supposed to po e certain magnetic powers, and to cure painful affections and tumours by being drawn over the part They hore the name of their inventor, Perkins, and were in considerable vogue about thirty years ago. A number of wonderful cures, however, having been attested, which were performed by means of spurious wooden Irac tors, the imaginary virtues of the magnetic or metallic fell into disrepute, and then into oblivion. TRACTORY, or [s. 1271]
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