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Albert Abrams (1863–1924) Practice is most commonly referred to as Radionics.
Early days
"ŸInventor of Radionics. Dr. Albert Abrams
It is said that Dr. Albert Abrams(1863-1924) was the original inventor of Radionics.
He didn't call his device or an idea "Radionics".
He called it "Radio Therapy".
Albert Abrams was born in 1863 in San Francisco.
He graduated first in his class in medicine at Heidelberg University, studied medicine at Berlin, Paris, Vienna and London.
He studied at Heidelberg University under Herman Von Helmholts , who was a famous medical scientist, physical scientist and philosopher.
From that time they maintained a good relationship with each other.
Dr.Abrams got inspiration from Helmholts.
Abrams tried to find a connection between the theories of biology and physics.
This experience destined him to new discovery and reserch.
After this time in Europe, he went back to America to teach pathology at Stanford University, became a dean of the medical school and received a doctorate of pathology.
He carried on reserch work until he died in 1942, at age 61.
Hubris
ŸNew discovery: The Relationship between geometric fields and percussion sounds.
Abrams was skilled at diagnosis, especially "percussive diagnosis".
Percussion is a kind of diagnostic technique.
The practitioner make a diagnosis by thumping the abdomen of the patient and listening to the changes in the percussion sound for evidence of a tumor or other disease.
One day, while he was examining a patient with percussive diagnosis, an X-ray machine near the laboratory was turned on without being noticed.
He found the percussion sound turned dull.
This leaded him to examine the relationship between the patient's aspect and percussion sound.
He also found that when a patient faced to the west, the percussion sound became dull but if a patient faced to the south or the north the sound didn't change.
He examined a patient who had lip cancer again and again, he found that the dull percussion sound occured in a similar manner to that of X-ray machine affect only when the patient faced west.
Since then, he examined many cases with many kinds of patients and he found that constricted response of the upper abdomen occuered when it responded to the molecular oscillation of cancer forming its group or the radiation of X-ray machine.
He decided to experiment based on this discovery.
He laid a healthy man facing west and thumping his upper abdomen, told a student to listen carefully the changes of reverberation.
Then, he let a doctor hold a sample of cancer cells near the subject's forehead.
He asked the doctor to touch the man's forehead with the cancer cells in intervals of several seconds.
When a sample of the cancer cells touched the man's forehead, the percussion sound changed from resonant sound to a dull sound.
He concluded that the vibration of a diseased cell sample was received by the human body and affected the human cells.
This phenomenon was published 1916, titled "New Consepts in Diagnosis and Treatment".
The devices
ŸElectronic responce
When a doctor examins a patient with percussive diagnosis, the patient need to stand up, so, a patient must have the physical strength to stand up.
After many kinds of experimentation, Abrams linked the head of a patient who was bedridden and a healthy assistant using an electrical leed.
Then he thumpped the abdomen of the assistant.
He found that the same response occured in the assistant in the same particular part of his abdomen as in the patient's.
He found a way to examine a bedridden patient with percussive diagnosis.
He concluded that disease has somekind of energy that can run through an electrical lead.
Then he attached two metal disks, one to each end of a 1.8m electrical lead, and put one disk to the patient's forehead while moving other disk to trace the body of his healthy assistant.
He found that percussion sound turned dull when it came to the same particular part of the assistant's abdomen.
1. He could diagnose a bedridden patient with this technique.2. Information about diseases runs through electrical lead. Next to examine if information about a disease behaves like electricity, he attached a variable resister in the middle of an electrical lead.
He connect the electrical lead to a syphilis patient and turned the dial to a variety of resisters. The percussion sound changed at 55 ohm.
When he experimented on a cancer patient, it changed at 50, a gonorrheal patient, at 42.
He repeated similar experiments, and found the ohm rate of many types of disease.
He also found that he could give a patient's diagnosis from the ohm rate.
He called the rate "Rate" and the numeration table "Rate book".
At first, he used only one variable resister to identify disease, but he tripled it to pinpoint an affected area and named the device "Bio-meter".
The first variable resister identified the name of a disease, such as cancer, and the second one pinpointed an affected area, such as the stomack.
He used that device himself and sold it to other doctors on request.
Next, he found that he was able to identify pathogenic organisms as well.
He put tubercle bacillus in a laboratory dish and connected it through an electrical lead to a healthy assistant.
Then when he adjusted the "Rate" to tubercle bacillus, there was a response.
He found that not only disease but also pathogenic organism could be identified using the device.
Moreover, he found that he could get the same result by using a patient's infected blood.
They called the phenomenon that Abrams discovered "Electronic Reaction of Abrams-ERA".
Investigation
ŸAttacked by the American Medical Association.
Abrams taught percussive diagnosis to his students, but there was always ten percent of the group of the students who weren't able to acquire this tecnique.
He was serching for a way to teach percussive diagnosis to this 10 percent by trial and error.
He finally conceived the technique of rubbing together a glass rod and a rubber rod to find the disharmonious area.
This technique consisted of touching an assistant's abdomen with a glass rod and then rubbing the glass rod vertically with a rubber rod.
The rods made squeaky sound under normal conditions, but at a certain point they stuck together and stopped making the sound.
This indicated the disharmonious area the same as the dull sound of percussive diagnosis did.
He taught this technique to the students who couldn't work with the percussive diagnosis.
Some time later, Abrams stopped using a rubber rod when he conceived the technique to rub a patient's abdomen with a glass rod.
When a glass rod came to an disharmonious area it stuck to the abdomen.
The same result occured when he employed the percussive diagnosis.
Then he recorded these certain points on a biometar when the glass rod responded.
This process was important as it evolved into stickpad later.
In 1922, Abrams succeeded in remotely diagonising a patient, who never entered his laboratory, using a sample of patient's blood.
He reported on this success in a physical medicine magazine.
This report aroused the antipathy of the American Medical Association and the association attacked Abrams for inadequate diagnosis.
After Abrams died in 1924, he had been written up in "Scientific American" 18 times.
He wrote several books but he never used the word "Radionics" in his books. He used the word "Radio Therapy" instead.
He didn't invented the word "Radionics".
No one knows who started to call his device "Radionics", but still, Abrams is the originator of Radionics.
He used the oscillator for Oscilloclast but it didn't make any sound and it needed very little electricity to activate something.
It was 1920 when radio was invented.
He may have used these parts for his device because of his insight into this new technology." by http://www.omnijapan.co.jp/english/albert.htm
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References
http://www.omnijapan.co.jp/english/albert.htm
See also
External links
- Quack “Electrodiagnostic” Devices article by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
- The Radionic Association
- Radionics: A Patient Survey by Tom Lafferty
- Radionics in the Skeptic's Dictionary