Albert Abrams, the author
The first book Abrams'
published was Manual of Clinical Diagnosis (1891), a well used book and
had three editions. Six years later the publication of his Diseases of the
Heart enhanced his reputation over the country. In the same year he
published a small book Scattered Leaves from a Physician's Diary, a book
where it's difficult to decide whether it should be classed as fact or fiction.
His interest in physical diagnosis, a field in which he excelled, was
considerable, if judged by the many articles he wrote on the subject. Abrams'
wrote five more books in the period between 1901 and 1911. The first, during
that period of unusual productiveness, was Nervous Breakdown. The second
book was: Transactions of the Antiseptic Club, a curious satire on germ
theory and antiseptic reform, the fictional misadventures of a group of
overblown scientists sending up medical testimonials, purified water,
hypochondria, etc.
The Antiseptic Club
The third
on The Blues - Splanchnic Neurasthenia.
The third book was on Man and His Poisons. And a fifth book, a mammoth
of 1039 pages on Diagnostic Therapeutics. In the same year Abrams published a
book on a medical technique he called Spondylotherapy. Spondylotherapy
is a neologic creation of Dr. Abrams. THE JOURNAL reviewed Abrams' book: "....one
wonders whether this is an attempt to explain osteopathy and chiropractic to the
understanding or the regular practitioner, or to exploit the very ingenious
percussion devices of the author whether it is really true that medical men
really know practically nothing about the cure of disease through treatment
of the spine. Let us hope that it may be the latter and that a
careful study of this unique volume may open new avenues heretofore undreamed
of."
In 1916 he
published New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment, thus launching the E.R.A. or Electronic Reactions of Abrams.