Newspaper report on Albert Abrams's will and the Scientific American report
news article · 1925
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SUMMARY
A January 1925 Oregon newspaper item recording that Abrams's will 'provided for the erection of a college of electronic healing' and that the Scientific American special committee, 'after a year of inquiry made public a report last August in which the Abrams electronic reaction theory was pronounced unfounded.' Primary documentation of the will's bequest and corroboration of the timing and verdict of the Scientific American report.
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A contemporary newspaper item in the Oregon Daily Journal of 17 January 1925, about a year after Abrams’s death, recounting his electronic-medicine system and its aftermath. It records that the bequest in his will ‘provided for the erection of a college of electronic healing,’ and that ‘a special committee, acting for the Scientific American, after a year of inquiry made public a report last August in which the Abrams electronic reaction theory was pronounced unfounded.’ Accessed through the University of Oregon’s Historic Oregon Newspapers (LCCN sn96088108). Used here to ground the will’s college bequest and to corroborate the Scientific American report’s August/September 1924 publication and ‘unfounded’ verdict.