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L'article sur le Biola reposait sur les travaux du Dr Albert Abrams, dont les Electronic Reactions avaient été examinées pendant une dizaine de mois par Scientific American avec l'American Medical Association et déclarées sans valeur en septembre 1924, sept mois avant la parution de l'article.

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Contexte · 22 avril 1925 Étayé

L'article sur le Biola reposait sur les travaux du Dr Albert Abrams, dont les Electronic Reactions avaient été examinées pendant une dizaine de mois par Scientific American avec l'American Medical Association et déclarées sans valeur en septembre 1924, sept mois avant la parution de l'article. Scientific American, septembre 1924Quackwatch, 1 février 2002The Golden Age, 22 avril 1925

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Scientific American, “Our Abrams Verdict”

septembre 1924 · p.158 · Austin C. Lescarboura · Munn & Co.

“The Electronic Reactions of Abrams and Electronic Medicine in General Found Utterly Worthless”

The concluding article of Scientific American's investigation of the Electronic Reactions of Abrams, published in volume 131, number 3 (September 1924). The words quoted are the article's own subtitle, quoted in full; the body of the article was not read.

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Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. The article's landing page on scientificamerican.com was opened on 19 September 2026 and confirms the title, the author, the issue (vol. 131 no. 3, September 1924), the page (158) and the subtitle quoted here in full. The full text is behind the publisher's archive paywall and was not read, so the verdict is recorded from the subtitle and from the Quackwatch account rather than from the body of the article. An earlier version of this record quoted only the words 'Found Utterly Worthless', which is a fragment of the middle of that subtitle.

Corroboré par. src-hlth-quackwatch-2002-radionics

Notes. The verdict was published in September 1924, seven months before The Golden Age printed its endorsement of the Biola in April 1925.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-hlth-sciam-1924-abrams-verdict

Évalué par des pairs / universitaire Vérifié

Quackwatch, “Radionics and Albert Abrams, M.D.”

1 février 2002 · William T. Jarvis, PhD · National Council Against Health Fraud / Quackwatch

“Analyzed in the cold light of scientific knowledge, the entire Abrams matter is the height of absurdity.”

Jarvis's account of the joint Scientific American and American Medical Association investigation of 1923-24, which he says ran about ten months and cost some $30,000. The words quoted are the first sentence of the investigating panel's verdict as he reproduces it; the verdict continues: 'The so-called Electronic Reactions of Abrams do not exist—at least objectively … At best it is all an illusion. At worst, it is a colossal fraud.' He also describes Abrams's 'Oscilloclast' as the prototype of 'black box quackery'.

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Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Page opened on 19 September 2026 and the quoted sentence and the surrounding account read. Jarvis is quoting the 1924 panel; the underlying Scientific American text was not opened, so the sentence is recorded as reported by Quackwatch.

Corroboré par. src-hlth-sciam-1924-abrams-verdict

Notes. Used only for independent context on what the Abrams system was and how it was assessed at the time. Abrams died in January 1924.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-hlth-quackwatch-2002-radionics

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The Golden Age, “Automatic Electronic Diagnosis”

22 avril 1925 · pp.451-455 · Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York

“[The Golden Age has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble. He is well known to many of our readers and we are sure they will read this important article with great interest.—Editor.]”

The editor's bracketed note at the head of the issue's lead article, printed above a by-line reading 'By Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute.' The article promotes the 'Electronic Radio Biola', a device the author says he invented: 'The Biola automatically diagnoses and treats diseases by the use of the electronic vibrations. The diagnosis is 100 percent correct'. The author praises the “famous Abrams' Electronic system” on which the device is built, and calls it a discovery 'which I am exclusively announcing in The Golden Age prior to its general publication elsewhere'.

Numérisation de l’original

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 451-455; the masthead is on the same leaf as the article's opening. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.

Provenance de la numérisation. Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume VI ... Wednesday, April 22, 1925 ... Number 146'.

Corroboré par. src-hlth-ga-1925-1202-mission-golden-age

Notes. The article's own text says of the Biola that 'its price brings it within the reach of every family, even those in the poorest circumstances'. The article is a signed contribution; the bracketed endorsement printed above it is the magazine's own.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-hlth-ga-1925-0422-electronic-diagnosis

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