Albert Abrams, the Glossary
Albert Abrams (December 8, 1863 – January 13, 1924) was a fraudulent American physician, well known during his life for inventing machines, such as the "Oscilloclast" and the "Radioclast", which he falsely claimed could diagnose and cure almost any disease.[1]
Table of Contents
43 relations: American Medical Association, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, Arthur Conan Doyle, Blood, Bronchopneumonia, Cancer, Chiropractic, Christopher Evans (computer scientist), Cults of Unreason, Diabetes, Disease, Electron, Elizabeth Holmes, Food and Drug Administration, Frequency, Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Hewlett-Packard, Jonesboro, Arkansas, Joseph F. Rinn, Malaria, Microorganism, Organ (biology), Osteopathy, Pathogen, Physician, Pleximeter, Plymouth Rock chicken, Pneumonia, Quackery, Radio, Reflex, Royal Rife, San Francisco, Scientific American, Sherlock Holmes, Stanford University School of Medicine, Syphilis, Telephone, The Psychology of the Occult, Transistor, Upton Sinclair, Vertebra.
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- Radionic practitioners
American Medical Association
The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students.
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An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural is a 1995 book by the conjuror and paranormal investigator James Randi, with a foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.
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Blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
Bronchopneumonia
Bronchopneumonia is a subtype of pneumonia.
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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially of the spine.
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Christopher Evans (computer scientist)
Christopher Riche Evans (29 May 1931 – 10 October 1979) was a British psychologist, computer scientist, and author.
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Cults of Unreason
Cults of Unreason is a non-fiction book on atypical belief systems, written by Christopher Riche Evans, who was a noted computer scientist and an experimental psychologist.
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Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.
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Disease
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury.
Electron
The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.
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Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection to her blood-testing company, Theranos.
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Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Frequency
Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
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Heidelberg
Heidelberg (Heidlberg) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.
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Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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Jonesboro, Arkansas
Jonesboro is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas.
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Joseph F. Rinn
Joseph Francis Rinn (1868–1952) was an American magician and skeptic of paranormal phenomena.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.
Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Organ (biology)
In a multicellular organism, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function.
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Osteopathy
Osteopathy, unlike osteopathic medicine, which is a branch of the medical profession in the United States, is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine that emphasizes physical manipulation of the body's muscle tissue and bones.
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Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
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Pleximeter
A Pleximeter is a device used in medical percussion, as part of a clinical examination, to absorb the energy generated by the strike from the plexor.
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Plymouth Rock chicken
The Plymouth Rock is an American breed of domestic chicken.
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Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.
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Quackery
Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.
Reflex
In biology, a reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary, unplanned sequence or action and nearly instantaneous response to a stimulus.
Royal Rife
Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. Albert Abrams and Royal Rife are health fraud people and Radionic practitioners.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Stanford University School of Medicine
The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States.
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Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.
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Telephone
A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.
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The Psychology of the Occult
The Psychology of the Occult is a 1952 skeptical book on the paranormal by psychologist D. H. Rawcliffe.
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Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California.
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Vertebra
Each vertebra (vertebrae) is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, that make up the vertebral column or spine, of vertebrates.
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See also
Health fraud people
- Albert Abrams
- Andrew Wakefield
- Anil Potti
- Barbara O'Neill
- Belle Gibson
- Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury
- Daniel Amen
- Darrell Wolfe
- Dipak K. Das
- Dushyant Mahendrabhai Patel
- Elisabeth R. Finch
- Elisha Perkins
- Francis Tumblety
- Gerald Barnbaum
- Hans Alfred Nieper
- Hulda Regehr Clark
- Joachim Boldt
- John Taylor (oculist)
- Judy Mikovits
- Melvin E. Page
- Munir Khan
- Pete Evans
- Prem Reddy
- Rashid Buttar
- Royal Rife
- Samuel Brubaker Hartman
- Yoshitaka Fujii
Radionic practitioners
- Albert Abrams
- Desiré Dubounet
- Fred J. Hart (businessman)
- Georges Lakhovsky
- H. A. Morton Whitby
- Hulda Regehr Clark
- Royal Rife
- Ruth B. Drown
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Abrams
Also known as Albert Abrahms, Dynomizer, Electronic Reactions of Abrams, McCoy device, Oscilloclast, Radioclast.