Human energy / by Albert Abrams.

  • Albert Abrams
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Human energy / by Albert Abrams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Introduction For the foregoing reason, in executing the electronic reactions an individual with known stomach-tonicity may be employed as a test- subject. In the latter instance, the energy is conveyed from the patient by means of an insulated copper-cord to the stomach-region of the subject. For esthetic reasons, the subject may be screened from the patient. The subject must stand on a flooring of unvarnished wood. Car- pet interposed between the latter and the feet of the subject is not objectionable. To increase the tone of the gastric musculature sufficient to elicit dulness, two simple maneuvers are available: 1. While the patient or an assistant directs either pole of a bar- magnet at a distance of about 4 inches from the presumable location of the lower stomach-border, light percussion is executed from below upward until dulness is elicited; this is the lower border of the stomach and its position should be marked with a dermograph. 2. During the time energy is conveyed from the heart-region of the subject to the stomach-region by means of an insulated cord of copper as shown in Fig. 7, execute percussion after the manner cited in the first maneuver. Finger-finger is preferable to instrumental percussion but those unskilled in the former may avail themselves of the plexor and plexi- meter as shown in Fig. 6, which have been specially devised by the author to substitute maladroit percussion. The lower border of the stomach having once been determined, one may proceed with the electronic test. The stomach reflex is easily exhausted and one must ascertain in the course of the examination if it is still present by conveying energy from the heart or by the use of the bar-magnet. ALBERT ABRAMS. 291 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal January, 1914. is WELLCC W TTUTE 1 Liefer Co!!. welMOmec Cali No.