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	Albert Abrams (www.whonamedit.com)
		Albert Abrams first obtained an American medical diploma, and, having learned Germen, he obtained a medical doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1882, before undertaking further studies in London, Berlin, Vienna, and Paris.
		Abrams would take a hair, handwriting or blood sample (sometimes a photograph) of a patient to be diagnosed.
		Abrams’ theories caused a huge controversy in the early 1920s when the famous author, Upton Sinclair, wrote the article "The House of Wonders" for Pearson's Magazine in June of 1923 which promoted Dr. Abrams' theory and methods.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/102.html (1038 words)

	Albert Abrams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Albert Abrams (1863–1924) was a quack and a fraud, posing as a doctor in San Francisco, whose tool for gaining profit from the gullible was a variety of "electricity therapy" he called ERA, or Electronic Reactions of Abrams.
		Abrams never actually participated in the investigation, and in ERA publications asserted he was a victim of unjust persecution.
		Abrams instead died of pneumonia at age 62 in January 1924.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Abrams (923 words)

	Chapter 26: Albert Abrams (c.1863-1924)
		Abrams submitted his resignation as Professor of Pathology to the Faculty at its regular meeting on 16 May 1898 and it was accepted by the Board of Directors of the College on 15 November 1898 without the usual expression of appreciation for prior services.
		Albert Abrams of San Francisco is the latest rocket to blaze a somewhat polychromatic course across the firmament of pseudo-medicine.
		Abrams claims to have evolved a system of abdominal percussion, practiced in connection with certain apparatus that he has made, from which he derives what he is pleased to term the "Electronic Reactions of Abrams": (abbreviated ERA).
	elane.stanford.edu /wilson/Text/26f.html (3337 words)

	Collect Medical Antiques -- Quack medicine
		Dr. Albert Abrams, born in 1863, was the King of American Charlatans and his electric devices encouraged the production of a generation of quack machines that flooded the market in the first part of the 20th century (90).
		Abrams placed a drop of blood from one of his patients into a "dynamizer" to determine the vibration frequency of the afflicting disease, and then used an "ocilloclast" to duplicate those vibrations in order to neutralize that disease (91,92).
		According to the AMA, Albert Abrams was the "dean of twentieth century charlatans".
	www.collectmedicalantiques.com /quack4.html (889 words)

	The Dynamics in Homoeopathy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Abram conceived a system of the clinical abdominal reflexes which he could use to diagnosis and dynamically test the reaction of homoeopathic remedies while they were still in their vials.
		Abrams developed a system of collecting symptoms and using his clinical methods to test the tuning of the life force as well as localize areas of dissonance and test possible pathological scenarios.
		Abrams grabbed the man's hand and stated confidently that this was the sight of the primary infection of syphilis.
	simillimum.com /Thelittlelibrary/Imponderabiliadynamics/dynamics.html (5343 words)

	The Electronic Reactions of Albert Abrams
		Albert Abrams, a native of San Francisco, received an M.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1882 at 18-20 years old, depending on which of several recorded birth dates is correct.
		Abrams went on to perfect his technique so that only a drop of blood or even a sample of the patient's handwriting would suffice as a specimen for his machine.
		Abrams began to make other astounding claims for his rheostat boxes - he could tell the religion of a person from one drop of blood by percussing someone else's belly.
	www.americanartifacts.com /smma/abrams/abrams.htm (2320 words)

	Albert Abrams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Abrams, born in 1863, was the first person to introduce a calibrated instrument capable of assisting in the detection of the disease radiations of living tissues.
		Abrams' discoveries, being demonstrable, proved completely convincing to large number of medical men who had not only witnessed them "in action", but were, in many cases, themselves making daily use of them for the benefit of their own patients.
		Abrams made ready to percuss, and was pleased to find that the interposition of six feet wire between the specimens and the "subject" in no way affected the definiteness of the induced reactions.
	www.electroherbalism.com /Bioelectronics/OtherBioelectronics/AlbertAbrams.htm (8300 words)

	Sympathetic Vibratory Physics - Keely - Dr. Abrahm's Electron Theory.
		Abrams contends that syphilis and gonorrhea are common foundations for all disease and that nearly everybody has one or the other or both, either by exposure or by heredity.
		Abrams accordingly contends that if a vibration sympathetic to that of the disease is set up throughout all the tissues, cells, molecules and atoms of the patient's body, it will ultimately cause that particular electronic movement to collapse.
		Albert Abrams has enlarged the horizon of physical science; he has thrown new light upon the subject of atomic mechanism; he has broken entirely new ground in the field of nature and has opened wide a door to undreamed of possibilities.
	www.industryinet.com /~ruby/abrahms.html (19091 words)

	Dr. Albert Abrams and the E.R.A.
		Methods used later by Abrams and his followers involved stroking the reagent's abdomen with a glass rod to obtain the "reactions." Later the reagent was dispensed with altogether and the operator stroked a plate hooked up to the Dynamizer, etc. with his fingers to feel the "vibrations" from the patient's blood or handwriting.
		Abrams claimed that his electronic diagnosis enabled him to tell how old was the donor of the drop of blood, whether he was white, fl, red or yellow; what diseases he was suffering now; what diseases could be expected in the future...
		Abrams himself diagnosed his own "life expectancy" and predicted his death would occur in January of 1924 based on his own E.R.A. diagnosis, which was fulfilled.
	www.premier1.net /~raines/abrams.html (4322 words)

	Inventor of Radionics. Dr. Albert Abrams
		Albert Abrams was born in 1863 in San Francisco.
		Abrams tried to find a connection between the theories of biology and physics.
		Abrams taught percussive diagnosis to his students, but there was always ten percent of the group of the students who weren't able to acquire this tecnique.
	www.omnijapan.co.jp /english/albert.htm (1503 words)

	Abrams, Boyd and the emanometer
		Abrams concluded that there was some kind of "radiation" from the tissue to which the healthy body reacted.
		The Abrams device was tested by Scientific American in a test very reminiscent of the test that Nature Magazine conducted in the Benveniste Laboratory in France almost 60 years later.
		As with the Abrams device, the emanometer used the abdominal reflexes of the individual he was examining.
	www.homeoinfo.com /08_non-classical_topics/dowsing/abrams_boyd_emanometer.php (1301 words)

	THE VIBRA-TUNE HVR-9
		Albert Abrams, circa 1900, modified this to where the abdomen was "rubbed" with glass to find a disharmonious area.
		Abrams further modified this technique to where he took a glass plate, placed a coil underneath it, and connected the coil to a wire.
		Dr Abrams, in similar fashion, first opened for modern humanity the field where Dr Drown, after many years of devoted, lonely and original labor, developed the system of diagnosis, therapy and soft-and-hard tissue photography that is her own distinct achievement.
	www.altered-state.com /radionic/v_tune.htm (12348 words)

	Albert J. Abrams Papers
		Albert J. Abrams was a lecturer at the Vassar Summer Institute and other universities, and he taught a seminar on legislative administration at the Graduate School of Public Affairs, at SUNY, Albany, in 1975.
		Abrams was elected Secretary of the Senate on January 6, 1963, and was re-elected to the post in January 1966.
		Abrams wrote articles on public administration for technical journals and also explained the workings of the legislative process to the general public through articles in popular magazines.
	library.albany.edu /divs/speccoll/findaids/apap056.htm (1004 words)

	The Confidence Artists
		Abrams performed diagnoses on dried blood samples sent to him on pieces of paper in envelopes through the mail.
		Abrams often included a disease called "bovine syphillis", which mystified proper medical practitioners since they had no idea what it was.
		Abrams never actually participated in the investigation, and in fact in ERA publications he tried to paint himself as a victim of unjust persecution.
	www.vectorsite.net /tzcon.html (6640 words)

	STRANGE
		Abrams was in fact a master of this technique and taught advanced courses to doctors from all over the world.
		Abrams surmised that the electromagnetic fields generated by the device were somehow causing the tone change.
		Abrams noted and reported a mysterious sympathetic healing response that could be observed in the patient even a great distance from the instrument.
	www.altered-states.net /hts/strange2.htm (3901 words)

	ALBERT ABRAMS, A.M., M.D., LL.D, F.R.M.S. - musuemofquackery.com
		Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco is the latest rocket to blaze a somewhat polychromatic course across the firmament of pseudo-medicine.
		In the filed of diagnosis Dr. Abrams claims to have evolved a system of abdominal percussion, practiced in connection with certain apparatus that he has had made, from which he derives what he is pleased to term the "Electronic Reactions of Abrams" (abbreviated ERA).
		By means of the "Electronic Reactions" Dr. Abrams (while admitting the protective factor of vaccination against smallpox) has discovered that practically all the vaccines obtained from reliable firms yield the reaction ("electronic tests") of congenital syphilis, and that many of them also yield the reaction of tuberculosis and of streptococci and staphylococci.
	www.museumofquackery.com /amquacks/abrams.htm (1373 words)

	Dr. Albert Abrams and the E.R.A.
		Methods used later by Abrams and his followers involved stroking the reagent's abdomen with a glass rod to obtain the "reactions." Later the reagent was dispensed with altogether and the operator stroked a plate hooked up to the Dynamizer, etc. with his fingers to feel the "vibrations" from the patient's blood or handwriting.
		Abrams claimed that his electronic diagnosis enabled him to tell how old was the donor of the drop of blood, whether he was white, fl, red or yellow; what diseases he was suffering now; what diseases could be expected in the future...
		Abrams himself diagnosed his own "life expectancy" and predicted his death would occur in January of 1924 based on his own E.R.A. diagnosis, which was fulfilled.
	www.seanet.com /~raines/abrams.html (4322 words)

	Abrams-like Devices Are Toftness-like Devices and Rubbing Plates.
		As early as the 1890s, Albert Abrams, M.D. began the practice of "radionics." This involved the use of a device called a "dynamizer," that "diagnosed" patients from a drop of their blood or their signature on a piece of paper.
		In 1920, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) described Abrams as the "greatest quack of the 20th century." In 1923, Scientific America magazine in conjunction with the AMA spent over $30,000 on a 10 month research project which exposed Dr. Abrams' fraudulent radionics devices.
		Abrams' original device is known in our era as the infamous "fl box." It was essentially a small well where the physician would place a personal item of the patient, such as a picture, a piece of clothing, hair, or even human tissue.
	www.chiroweb.com /archives/09/14/15.html (1312 words)

	Deutschland Lexikon - Albert Einstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Albert, erster Sohn von Pauline und Hermann Einstein, wurde 1879 in Ulm geboren.
		1918 gehörte Albert Einstein zu den Gründern der linksliberalen Deutschen Demokratischen Partei (DDP).
		Albert Einstein, Carl Seelig: Mein Weltbild, ISBN 3548346839 (Originalausgabe 1934)
	lexikon.umkreisfinder.de /Albert_Einstein (2902 words)

	Skeptical Inquirer: The king of quacks: Albert Abrams, M.D.; one of the greatest quacks of all time was Albert Abrams, ...
		Abrams embarked on a lecture tour, charging $200 to teach spondylotherapy to anyone willing to pay the fee.
		Abrams pronounced, "The spirit of the age is radio, and we can use radio in diagnosis" (Abrams 1925).
		In 1917 Abrams published his electronic theory of diseases, called "Electronic Reactions of Abrams," or E.R.A., inaugurating one of the most famous cults of all time.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2843/is_3_26/ai_85932620/pg_2 (540 words)

	Radionics and Albert Abrams, M.D.
		Radionics and Albert Abrams, M.D. William T. Jarvis, Ph.D. Albert Abrams, MD, imagined that the secret to health and disease lie in the nature of vibrations emanating from the body's cells.
		Abrams created a fl box called the Oscilloclast which was alleged to not only measure but alter these vibrations and effect health and disease.
		The story of Albert Abrams and his Oscilloclast is renowned in the annuals of quackery [1,2] His many imitators included chiropractor Ruth Drown [3] and George de la Warr [4].
	www.ncahf.org /articles/o-r/radionics.html (813 words)

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		Abrams was a respectable physician who began to pursue his theories of diseases having specific vibratory rates that could be detected by tapping on the patient’s abdomen or spine.
		Abrams would then percuss (tap) the abdomen of a healthy person, who was stripped to the waist and always — for a reason never made too clear — facing west.
		Albert Abrams, A.M., M.D., LL.D, F.R.M.S. was roasted by the American Medical Association in their journal.
	www.sniggle.net /drown.php (2471 words)

	Green, Gerald: To Brooklyn with Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Albert's mother is a refined literary-type lady who never complains about their life in the deteriorating neighborhood, even though all of their middle-class friends have moved elsewhere.
		Albert is a brilliant young man ("the highest IQ in the school"), but his greatest desire is to be "one of the boys." He is small, skinny, and poor at sports.
		But the image of Abrams, who alienates the patients he serves because he is unable to break out of the shell of his personality, is wonderfully complex.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/green12116-des-.html (552 words)

	16/10/95 -- Features: Dynamize Me! Medical Quackery Past And Present
		In spite of a critical response from the medical establishment, Abrams was quick to find supporters for his revolutionary theory, and spent years touring and explaining (for a considerable fee, of course) the wonders of this technique to scores of budding spondylotherapists.
		Abrams derived these fascinating medical and personal insights by simply placing the blood or handwriting sample in the dynamizer, which was connected by means of an electrode to the forehead of a healthy male lab assistant, who stood stripped to the waist, facing West, under dim lighting conditions.
		Then, one of Abrams' occiloclasts was opened to reveal a collection of useless electrical components wired haphazardly together in a totally meaningless manner, prompting physicist Robert Millikan to declare, "They are the kind of device a ten-year-old boy would build to fool an eight-year-old." The cracks were quickly growing wider.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/97-1/issue12/beyers.html (1513 words)

	These Cults: Chapter VI
		Abrams' blood examinations have long been established facts, and if this writer were imbued with the spirit of science of which he speaks so glibly, instead of ridiculing methods which he was incapable of understanding, he would have tested them by sending to Abrams a blood sample from a patient whose disease he did understand.
		Abrams' system of blood analysis was based on the theory that all things, animate and inanimate, have radio-activity, measured by wave lengths and varying according to the number of electrons and their rotary speed inside the atomic unit.
		I told Dr. Abrams quite frankly that "it might all be true, or it might all be pish-posh, for aught I knew"; and with his permission I would reserve judgment on the ERA and confine my report to my impressions of him, of his establishment, and of the people I met there.
	www.soilandhealth.org /03sov/0303critic/030315cults/cults-ch6.htm (4873 words)

	Quack Cures and radionic Ouija Boards
		Albert Abrams and noted its similarities with primitive ouija boards.
		Abrams' method of diagnosis from a blood or handwriting sample is then described.
		Albert Abrams himself was called to testify on her behalf of the efficacy of the E.R.A. in a mail fraud case involving LeCocq.
	www.premier1.net /~raines/cures.html (3383 words)

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