THE ABRAMS TREATMENT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 6

THE ABRAMS TREATMENT

CASE AGAINST DR. DUNDAS

MACKENZIE.

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AUCKLAND, This Day. In the Dundas Mackenzie case, Dr. Petit, cross-examined, said if a patient had cancer o£ the rectum, in view j)f the terrible nature of the operation, he would be advised against it. He would advise the Abrams treatment. There would not be a hope of ultimate recovery, but the treatment would alleviate the pain for the time. If the disease was in a very early stage, he would advise an operation, not the Abrams treatment. He \»)uld advise that the operation be followed by the Abrams treatment. He did not affirm that, the Abrams treatment could cure. In some cases of cancer the symptoms subsided, and the patient, to all appearances, became well. He did not claim to diagnose by the machine alone. The fact that successful tests previously carried out had been probably known for years had not deterred the profession generally from declaring the method a fraud. His Honour: "But that was not the attitude taken up by the B.M.A. or Mr. Thomas Horder ''

Witness began to read extracts from a publication, but the Judge said he would interpret the report for himself.