ABRAMS TREATMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 March 1925, Page 5

ABRAMS TREATMENT.

CURES CLAIMED.

EVIDENCE IN MEDICAL CASE

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, March 17. The hearing of the case in which an application is being made under the Aledical 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. A Te Aroha resident stated in evidence that after treatment by several other doctors, who failed to alleviate his great pain, he consulted Dr. Mackepzie, who diagnosed a growth on the boWel and treated him successfully by the Abrams method. This was four years ago and he had had no recurrence of the trouble. Somewhat similar evidence was given by other witnesses for the defence

A married woman residing at Newmarket gave details of trouble following on the extraction of her teeth in 1920, over two years after the extraction. She was operated upon for the trouble in April, 1923. Another operation was performed in the Wanganui hospital, when a growth was examined pathologically and found to be malignant. “The doctor called it a different name, hut it was cancer,” witness said. She then had free radium treatment at the Dunedin hospital. Up to this time five doctors had been called in to see her mouth. Radium was put into the cavity. After the third radium treatment the-face started to swell. It was oost painful and there was a discharge from the mouth and eye. Witness came to Auckland and saw Dr. Mackenzie. She underwent treatment by the Abrams method.- After six weeks of the treatment the pain, eased and the trouble seemed to clear up completely. In August of last" year, eight months after the commencement of the treatment, there was no recurrence of the trouble.

A farmer from the Te Awamutu district deposed to having returned from he war with neurasthenia. After about twelve months in New Zealand he took a chill and had a very bad attack of acute rheumatism with rheumatic fever After advice and treatment by Dr. Holm den, of Auckland,- witness improved considerably and became semiconvalescent. As he did not get better after a. month at Helensville, he consulted Mackenzie just over two years ago. , Witness was unable to work, was miserably weak, and still suffered pain, tie had seven weeks’ treatment under the Abrams method and felt an immense improvement. He was now in first-class condition and was working a backblocks farm. Witness did not pay Mackenzie a penny. The doctor said he would not take money from witness, as he was a returned soldier. A carpenter deposed to having been unwell for 13 years with rheumatism. In 1918 he was crippled with rheumatism. He saw several loctors, who could only ease him with medicine. The Carpenters’ Union asked him if he would undergo Mackenzie’s treatment. Witness accepted the offer, receiving treatment for seven weeks. “As a result I have never felt the pain since and have lost no time through illness,” declared the witness. A witness, who formerly resided in Dunedin, • deposed to having sufferel from rheumathoid orthritis for ten years. She saw several South Island doctors and had electrical and mineral baths, but got only temporary relief. She became almost helpless. Her joints were all stiff and she was losing the power of her arms. Then she underwent the Abrams treatment after going to see Dr. Pettit. In a little over two months she was free from pain, and she now had no pain .whatever. Mr. D., of New Plymouth, said he first consulted Dr. Mackenzie at the end of February, 1922. Previously lie lie had been under Dr. Blackley, of New Plymouth. He had had a dangerous nervous breakdown. He had suffered for .20 years. Just prior to consulting Mackenzie he had been in hospital for six or seven weeks. The mother of a young woman deposed to having taken her daughter to a number of doctors. She could not dress herself, wash herself, nor turn in bed. Doctors could not do anything for her and she was gradually getting worse. Witness did not think the doctors really knew tjie cause of the trouble. Witness consulted Dr. William Pettit, and the Abrams treatment was given. Her daughter had been under treatment from Dr. Pettit for three, or four months with the Abrams treatment. “She is now able to lress herself and clean herself,” said the woman, “and sits here in court a living monument to the result of the Abrams .treatment.” She could now play the piano and had the use of her limb’s. Witness ascribed her daughter’s present condition to the Abrams treatment. Numerous other witnesses gave evidence, after which the case was adjourned till to-morrow.