Abrams Reflexophone
name: label: maker
content: Dr. Albert Abrams
notes: label: Description
content: Albert Abrams (1863–1924), widely known as the “dean of 20th century charlatans,” was an American physician famous for creating and promoting such techniques as “Spondylotherapy” and the “Electronic Reactions of Abrams.” He also promoted various machines that, he claimed, could diagnose and cure almost any disease. An inscription on this machine reads “REFLEXOPHONE / OF / DR. ALBERT ABRAMS / PATENT PENDING / SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Albert Abrams, A.M., M.D., LL.D., F.R.M.S.,” The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicine 2 (1922): 472-480.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Albert Abrams, Electron Diagnosis Inventor, Dies at 60,” New York Times (Jan. 15, 1924), p. 11.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
label: used
content: United States: Montana, Helena
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dennis Stillings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0087.03
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0087.03
label: accession number
content: 1982.0087
objectType: label: Object Name
content: reflexophone
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.5 cm x 26 cm x 13.1 cm; 3 3/8 in x 10 1/4 in x 5 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 10 1/4 in x 5 1/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 26.035 cm x 13.0175 cm