Oscillocast
name: label: maker
content: Dr. Albert Abrams
notes: label: Description
content: Albert Abrams (1863–1924), often termed 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 such machines as the Oscilloclast and the Radioclast which, he claimed, could diagnose and cure almost any disease.
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: Description
content: Samuel O. Hoffman, “Circuit Controlling Device,” U.S. Patent 1,445,951 (Feb. 20, 1923).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Montana, Helena
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dennis Stillings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0087.01
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0087.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0087
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oscilloclast
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 17 3/8 in x 14 1/4 in; 35.56 cm x 44.1325 cm x 36.195 cm