INTERESTING.
A cablegram to the Sydney Sun- states that, by means of a method of tapping on the spine, Dr Albert Abrams, of San Francisco, claims to have dis covered a cure both for tuberculosis in its early stages and for appendicitis. Dr Abrams asserts that the function of the spleen is to regulate the number of white corpuscles, which are Nature's great germ destroyers. To increase these corpuscles concussion at the eleventh dorsal vertsbra is necessary, while to reduce them concussion is applied at the second lumbar vertebra. Dr Abrams further explains that concussion at .the eleventh dorsal vertebra ■18 capable of stimulating the nerve controlling the movement of the in. testines, by straightening which the intestine is . easily cleared, and the necessity for an operation for appendicitis thus aVoided.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLI, Issue 5892, 4 December 1912, Page 4
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