ABRAMS SYSTEM

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 March 1925, Page 5

ABRAMS SYSTEM

TREATMENT OF DISEASE. AUCKLAND MEDICAL CASE. DEFENCE - CONTINUED. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, March 13. p The hearing of the case in which ah application is being made under the Medical Practitioners Act -to have the name of Henry Dundas Mackenzie, a medical practitioner, of Auckland, removed from the register, was continued in" the Supreme Court to-day. 1 Resuming his evidence, Dundas Mac- / kenzie said the Abrams’ machine under test conditions had been found to do all that was claimed for it. Witness had. read a report that in construction there was a difference between Boyd’s machine and Abrams’, but there was no difference in principle. The principle of Boyd’s machine was being constantly used by Abrams in his clinic. Abrams had a large knowledge of the ignorance of the medical profession in manipulation, and he gave them a machine he thought they would be less likely to use wrongly like they might do with the Boyd machine. Witness said that he might not give a. patient the same diagnosis as an ; ordinary doctor. Witness had found that trouble in the knee was caused by throat trouble. The Abrams reaction had been obtained in a large number of, ca'ses. It had been checked and rechecked over a period of 20 year's. The condition would reveal itself later. In many cases one would get a condition where one could see nothing and find , nothing by ordinary methods. In most chronic diseases the symptoms ‘ present were only the results and not the causes of the diseases. * ~ Describing the system further, Mackenzie said he examined • a patient’s blood in the dynamiser and then brought the patient into the room to check up his work. That was practically universally done. The checking up consisted of going over the work on the patient as one had don© with the blood by putting the patient practically in the dynamiser and connecting the patient to the reagent instead of tHe* dynamiser. Witness was not now in a condition to do Abrams work. His health had been seriously undermined' J>y the present trouble, which had been. hanging over _ him for over two years. He was not in a physical or mental condition to do the work under test conditions.' He then reviewed some cases in detaiL 1 To the judge: If a person had carcinoma and it were left alone and not interfered with, being free from surgical interference, it might lie dormant for a long period of years. There was no determined time when it might come out., - His Honor: This - is speculation, is it not? It is ! a scientific fact,, then, that this man may look forward'to having carcinoma of the liver at some future time ? \ ■. He may or may not, Mackenzie said.The question was: whether treatment by--the Abrams’ method would remov© the precancerqus condition and so remove it that it would not return. It was known in many cases that the condition had improved. Whether the treatment had Cured them or not only time could tell. To Mr Dickson: No one. could tell if a man had cancer, except _by an examination under the microscope. Abrams had thought ; out a system of discovering it before it was operable. Mackenzie dealt with other, cases in detail. With regard to blood tests, he said he did not pretend to be able, to make -tests after the blood had -been held for a month or so. Witness received specimens from Dr. Todd. He had no recollection of Dr. Todd having paid him. “F” sent some blood. Witness did not test that. He tested the handwriting of the first letter sent by “F.” The. test gave witness . what he wrote in the letter. ' Another doctor had since found the same.

Under cross-examination bv Mr i Meredith witness said he started his career in Dunedin as. a mining student. He did not remember when he became a medical student. He put in the equivalent of one and'a half year’s work at the Otago University. Mr Meredith put in a telegram from the Registrar of_the University, which indicated that in four subjects which Mackenzie attended h© had passed in one and failed in two. Mackenzie said he did not leave Otago to go to America because it would be an easier place. He left with the intention of going to Edinburgh, his idea being to take up homeopathy. Later he attended the Missouri Homeopathic College. That college was not now in existence. It has been crushed bv the American Medical Association. Witness did not know the Dean was prosecuted for selling diplomas. The college was recognised by many State boards. The State Board of New. York would not recognise it, but then that board would not recognise the University of London. Witness was in America for three years. He arrived there in 1892 and left in 1896, returning to New - Zealand. During that time h© was in some American hospitals. Hedid locum work for a period when he. got to New Zealand, and then took a practice in Levin. About 15 years later he returned to America. He stayed there for five or six months. Prior to going to America he had been practising homeopathy. -» He had practised $ for five or six months prior to going . to America.

Mackenzie said he had been practising homeopathy, and he had practised / the autohaemic treatment. Witness had also practiised official, surgery. He had had special training in this for operating for piles, adenoids, etc. It was not looked on as a quack cult.;, It was used throughout America to-day, and was used when he first went therer The cross-examination of defendant}who was in the box all day, was not concluded when the court rose till Monday. . •