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A s long as t has been disease, t have been those who have taken it upon themselves to find cures, whether it be by herbs and incantations, or by the latest genetically engineered and scientifically proven therapies. However, t has always been room for sorcerers and charlatans since t is always disagreement on what works and what doesn't, what is quackery and what is not. Many techniques come in and out of vogue, all awaiting the type of carefully controlled scientific investigation that was first suggested by William Harvey in his landmark masterpiece "De Motu Cordis" in 1628. The line between quackery and cure has always been blurred and remains so today. King of the Quacks The Short Wave Oscilloclast had no scientific certification other than by the word of a physician, manufacturer, or the testimonial of a pleased customer. Dr. Albert Abrams, born in 1863, was the King of American Charlatans and his electric devices encouraged the production of a generation of quack machines that flooded the market in the first part of the 20th century. Dr. Abrams placed a drop of blood from one of his patients into a "dynamizer" to determine the vibration frequency of the afflicting disease, and then used an "ocilloclast" to duplicate those vibrations in order to neutralize that disease. Dr. Abrams thus fulfilled two of the most important rules of quackery: a) t must be a logical basis for the procedure, and b) the patient must either see or feel the "cure" in action. Long term results remained a problem. An Historical Perspective:Albert Abrams, The Physician Who Made Millions Out of Electricity Paul Scholten, MD, Historian San Francisco has always loved eccentrics and characters and Alfred Abrams, MD, AM, LLP, FRMS, (1863-1924) was one of the city's finest characters. A brilliant physician, he was highly educated for the time and for 20 years he was eminently respectable and a highly respected practitioner. For the next 15 years he was looked on by his colleagues as controversial with increasingly odd theories and treatments. Finally, in the last six years of his life, he developed a world-wide notoriety and was felt by many in the profession to be an out and out money-hungry charlatan-but a very rich one when he invented an electronic box that would diagnose and cure all disease. Abrams was born in San Francisco to a merchant family on December 8, 1863 and died at the age of 60 in 1924. The family was affluent enough to send him to Heidelberg w he received his medical degree in 1882. He returned home and earned a second medical degree from the local Cooper Medical School in 1883. He went back to Germany for a year of post-graduate study in Berlin , then entered practice in June of 1884. Years later, when he became notorious, many wrote to the American Medical Association saying that it was not possible to get an MD from Heidelberg at the age of 19, but the AMA checked it out and found that he was the youngest medical graduate t in 100 years. They also confirmed the Cooper medical degree to be genuine, his local courses probably shortened by his Heidelberg credits. He began to practice on the southwest corner of Van Ness and California Streets. Later, after being burned out in the Great 1906 Earthquake/Fire, he moved a few blocks west to 2135 Sacramento Street , from w he made his rounds in a chauffeured Rolls Royce. He became very active at Mt. Zion and French Hospitals and at Cooper Medical School w he was professor of pathology (1893-98) and Director of the Cooper Medical School Clinic. He joined the San Francisco Medical Society, the AMA and the CMA and in 1894 was vice president of the California Medical Association. At that time, the SFMS played a large part in continuing medical education with frequent evening meetings. The records show that Abrams gave "a very good report" on a case of tetany at a meeting in December 1889, spoke on the new discovery of culturing diphtheria in a test tube on February 1896 and ... 
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