of DIAGNOSIS CURE

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1 August 1924, Page 17

of DIAGNOSIS CURE

NEW METHOD DISEASE STOUT

tenet of whose doctrine is just that same truth, differently expressed. Dr. Abrams worked on the principle that “electrons and not cells are the ultimate constituents of the organism, and that, in the incessant activity of the electrons, radio-activity or its equivalent energy is evolved, which has an invariable vibratory rate.” Some idea of the unthought-of store of energy residing in the human body, and manifesting itself, for instance, when the brain is active, may be gathered from the fact, adduced by this doctor, that brain effort may produce a potential discharge of energy from the finger-tips equal to a giant magnet’s lifting power of 400 pounds to the square inch! Yet this is, perhaps, no more wonderful than the truth that the atomic energy residing in a moderate-sized lump of coal is sufficient to drive a steamship across the Atlantic, if a method could be devised for exploding and harnessing the coal atomic energy. But the “atomic engine” has still to come! There are some special centres of energy in the human body (the finger-tips, portions of brain, etc.) where the discharge is much more active than elsewhere and some of the novel and delicate experiments conducted by Dr. Abrams for the measurement and graphic charting of the radio-active or psychic energy developed by thought and feeling are such as would be of absorbing interest to students of psychology. Hope for Sufferers If Dr. Abrams’ electronic system of diagnosis and treatment finally proves to be all that it purports to be, sufferers have much to hope for from a method which, according to Dr. Lindlahr, “reduces medical theory and practice to absolutely basic principles and exact science.” It seems strange, by the way, that Dr. Abrams should find, behind the delicate working of the physical laws his research has brought into prominence, so little evidence of a supreme intelligence that he still remained, it is said, a profound materialist! Perhaps that is an exaggeration, for he occasionally used the expression, “The Great Organiser.” In conclusion, it may be of interest to readers to know that the new system of diagnosis and cure is already being practised in different parts of the Dominion by at least two professional pioneers; and, if reports be true, with astonishingly successful results. It seems a pity that conservative medical etiquette stands in the way of giving fuller publicity to the new system and its operators through the columns of the daily Press; for the delay in effectively heralding such a system, if of proved value, must obviously be a matter of life or death to many waiting sufferers.