303: TWO DR ALBERT ABRAMS REFLEXOPHONE QUACK MEDICAL DEVICES

Devices like these were used by Dr. Albert Abrams to provide patient diagnoses over the phone.

Among many other fantastic therapies, Dr. Abrams claimed to create a form of treatment that could, with a sample of hair or blood, establish a diagnosis and then transmit healing vibrations back to the patient. Useless knob-covered devices such as this aided the doctor in his ruse.Dr. Albert Abrams has been dubbed the 'Dean of All Twentieth Century Charlatans.' He took quackery to a new level, exploiting the public's ignorance when it came to real technologies like electricity, along with phony ones he gave names like 'Oscillation' and 'Radionics.' Around 1916, he wrote a book about Physico-clinical Medicine (another fancy but concocted word): the Practical Application of the Electronic Theory in the Interpretation and Treatment of Disease.
Measures 4 x 10.25 x 5.25 inches each.
Good condition as shown and presumably as effective as the day they were made.
$150 - $250