The "Electronic Reactions of Abrams"

An unsigned article in Nature of 23 May 1925, written amid the British investigation of the Abrams method and its derivative apparatus. It states that ‘Dr. Albert Abrams graduated in medicine at Heidelberg at the age of nineteen years,’ that ‘at thirty-seven, after many years’ practice in San Francisco, he founded a therapeutic method which he called “Spondylotherapy,” and six years later, in 1910, he introduced a method of diagnosis and treatment’ he named ‘electronic vibrations.’ It describes the Dynamizer (a box of electrodes wired through resistance boxes labelled ‘amplifier’ and ‘reflexophone’ to a healthy ‘subject’ percussed while ‘facing west’) and the Oscilloclast, and gives the consulting engineers’ finding that ‘the greater part of the apparatus is functionless, the essential part consisting of a simple rocking magnetic interrupter, which permits about a micro-ampere of current, interrupted about 200 times, to flow to the patient.’ Metadata confirmed against the Crossref record (doi:10.1038/115789a0; Nature 115(2899):789-790, 23 May 1925); no author is listed. Used here for the biography and the physical teardown of the apparatus.