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Albert Abrams was born on December 8, 1863 in San Francisco, California, United States, the son of Marcus and Rachel (Leavey) Abrams.
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Albert Abrams was born on December 8, 1863 in San Francisco, California, United States, the son of Marcus and Rachel (Leavey) Abrams.
Abrams took his medical degree at Heidelberg (1882) and extensive postgraduate studies in Europe.
Abrams was sometime chief of the medical clinic at Cooper Medical School. His published works for this period comprise: Manual of Clinical Diagnosis (1891); Diseases of the Heart (1900); The Blues (Splanchnic Neurasthenia) five editions (1904-1914); Man and his Poisons (1906), and Diagnostic Therapeutics (1910). Known for original research and prolific authorship he acquired an international reputation through his discovery of "Abrams's visceral reflexes. " In 1910 his Spondylotherapy; Spinal Concussion, which went through five editions, sought to harmonize these discoveries with the claims and results in practice of the spinal-adjustments healing cults but departed more or less from the rigor of scientific medicine.
In 1913 the assertion that disease causes changes in the electrical skin potential gave him the germ of the conception of electronic diagnosis and treatment, and his New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment (1916) maintained that the electron, the new unit of matter in general, was to supplant the cell as a biological unit; that disease is a disharmony of the electronic oscillations; that diagnosis must detect and measure the alteration--each disease has its own vibratory rate--and that treatment must restore equilibrium. Since all cures make use of this principle the new method must supplant all others. A drop of blood represents the entire individual and suffices for diagnosis, although it is necessary to place a healthy control subject in the electrical circuit and test his skin reactions, which conform to the vibratory rate of the disease.
The apparatus comprised under fanciful names a condenser and a rheostat and ohmmeter for diagnosis, and for treatment a magnetic interrupter (oscilloclast). The book abounded in fantastic dogmatism to such an extent that the author's colleagues at first thought him unbalanced. But he was of established reputation, it was not easy to disprove his basic claims, and, as in all new systems of treatment, remarkable cures were not lacking. There was a possible crude foreshadowing of a revolutionary discovery.
After the interlude of the war Abrams seems to have abandoned professional for commercial methods, incidentally giving brief instruction courses and leasing apparatus, both at exorbitant prices, to physicians and laymen alike; so that by 1923 there were no less than 3, 500 electronic practitioners in the world. He made increasingly extravagant claims in diagnosis, going far beyond the limits of disease, and his methods became more and more open to ridicule and exposure. The Scientific American began an investigation of E. R. A. in October 1923, not long before Abrams's death, which occurred with dramatic suddenness at the most critical period of his career.
There has been considerable posthumous interest in Abrams in England, and the Royal Society of Medicine gave his doctrines an independent investigation; and despite his professional apostasy British medical men of the caliber of Sir James Barr insist that he was not only a genius but one of the outstanding medical figures of the last half-century.
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Abrams was married to Blanche B Abrams.