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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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. [archaic]
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