The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-10

constructed machine or by the use of lights and
colors, a persons mental as we'll as physical
makeup can be changed so IS to bring to him and
to the Iord about him the greatest possible
amountsof happiness and consentment.
What world, if all this is comng
The picture evoked by these startling claims is
indeed enc to inspire amazement, joy, horror
above ALL incredulity; and it is naturally with an
increduous mind that one first approaches the ap-
parent magic of the ERA. (Islectronic Reactions
of Abrams.) Many physicians, particularly the
leading spirits in the American Medical Associa-
ton, have combated the whole Abrams theory and
its practice with determined hostility, have sought
to overwhelm it with waves of scorn and contempt.
They declare the thing is, in the first place, the
ereticay impossible, and, furthermore, that on
such rare occasions upon which Abrams submitted
his methods to dsinterested analyses, tests and
demonstration, only negative or totally ridicu-
ous and nonsensical results were achieved.
The newness, the fantastic Strangeness of the
whole thing is certainly repellent at first to the
conservative truth-seeker. But there is a Of
evidence which has accumulated in the way Of
demonstrations, only negative or totally ridicu-
Dr. Abramss own scientific explanation of the
theories upon which he works, which, as he gave it
to the writer recently seems to be in line with the
latest eectronic researches of scientists such
Sir Ernest Rutherford
n UT the immediate application Of Dr.. Abramss
ID methods-herein, to practical minds lies the
test. Let present typical picture Of
the doctor at work in the blouse Of Wonder" as
his clinic in San Francisco has been called Here
is Upton Sinclair's account of what he saw there,
as he wrote it for a recent number of Parsons
Magazine:
"You are in a physicians laboratory In the
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electrical apparatus. One of the wires from this
apparatus ends in an electrode, and in front of the
table, upon a grounded plate, stands young man,
stripped to the waist and with the electrode pressed
to his forehead. DR.. Abrams sits on chair before
the young man and taps with his finger upon the
latter's abdomenSa method known to physicians
percussion" This young man is not the patient
being examined; this young is known as the
Subject" and his body is merely of the instru
ments which Abrams uses in his examination The
patient is in Toronto, Boston, Mexico City
and all that DR.. Abrams has is half dozen drops
Of his blood upon a bit of clean, white blotting
paper.
Next specimen, says DIR. Abrams, and his
sistant takes from an envelope blood specimen
which has come in that mornings mail cuts it
to the right size and puts it in little box which
is connected with the body of the subject
The doctors assistant hands him letter whch
has come with the specimen, and the doctor reads
it to his clinic: 4 send the blood of Mrs. j., age
fortysix years. That is all. All right, gentle
men,, says Abrams, we set the instrument at forty
nine, which is the vibratory rate Of human blood.
l don't happen to know this doctor who sends the
specimen and there people trying to play tricks
on me all thk time. II this specimen contains
human blood, the vibratory rate will come through
on the body of the subject and shall have dull
area on this spot, if it is male The doctor ind
Gates line just below the navel, and about inch
to the left. If it is female, the dull will be
on the corresponding spot to the right. Now listen
"He presses the second finger of his left hand
against the abdomen of his subject, and with the
second finger of his right hand, used little
Dr. Lamar futile, DR..
Abramss assist ant dia snos-
na a disease through the