The New Hampshire Gazette

Doctor Perkins's tractors having reached Denmark; experiments were there made in the hospital by the first physicians, surgeons and philosophers, both in the hospitals and private families, in consequence of which a history of their effects and remarks thereon was published by surgeons Herholdt, and Ran from which the following is extracted.

"On the whole, Perkinism derives an advantage from this, that our experiments have not been made with a view of confirming any favorite theory, or of supporting an invented hypothesis. If the experiments at Copenhagen have not all had that complete success which attended those in America, they have however demonstrated to our satisfaction, that there is a great deal of reality at bottom, and that Perkinism is of importance to the Physician, and as Abildgaard, a professor and first lecturer at the Veterinary College has justly observed, merits particularly the thorough attention of the Physiologist."