Original sentence: Abrams explained that this would disrupt their delicate adjustment, but the rule also served to prevent the Abrams devices from being examined...In Abrams view, American medicine was dominated by physicians who admired German doctors and researchers excessively.The rules specified that the boxes could not be opened
Edited sentence: The rules specified that the boxes could not be opened excusing this as fear of disrupting their delicate adjustment.This was his way of getting back at the boorish Germanophiles at the AMA, and these gentlemen reacted to it in predictably humorless fashion