'There is a desperate conflict of evidence over what is known as the Abrams' Magic Box. Abrams was an American doctor who seems by general admission to have come eross some very important medi cal discovery affecting, the use of electrons. Our own doctors have investigated it, and they admit that stand what they are or how they are used, although they suggest hat Abrams, who died some little time ago, exploited his discovery on sensational and charlatan lines. You find people who have tried it quite enthusiastic about its value, and it is just possible that when we begin to understand it pro-yerly we shall make a very great advance in medical science. The medical profession is very slow to a discovery by, oF knowledge on the part of, anyone who is not an ordinary medical man, just as they still boycott bonesetters, with a stupid bittern which the lay public regards as most il-advised. "In this particular case of Abrams, however, we do not know enough to enable us to express any opinion with certainty. What, aprently, has been established is {that ill-health can be to some extent overcome by a machine which xecharges the body cells with electricity; and, if this is so, the new theory that "electyjcity is life" will receive important confirmation and new field of curative research will have been opened up.
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