Word: oscilloclast
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...rogues' gallery of them from court cases it has recently won. The "Ortho-Structurometer," a posture adjuster, was falsely claimed to be effective for tuberculosis, asthma, heart conditions and ear-nose-throat infections. A San Francisco outfit got into space-age labeling with the "Oscilloclast," "Oscillotron," "Dipolaray" and "Depolatron." A Southern California chiropractor achieved the ultimate in low fidelity by distributing an endless-tape recording of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. The machine emitted no music, but the promoter claimed that vibrations, transmitted through electrodes, cured cancer as well as cataracts and ulcers. He sold several hundred before...
...other hand, Abrams claimed without acceptable evidence that the human body was an electrochemical machine which produced certain vibrations when healthy, certain other vibrations when sick. He claimed that he could diagnose specific diseases by means of a machine which resembled a radio receiver. By means of this "Oscilloclast" he claimed that he could also cure diseases, detect lies, measure love, determine parentage...
Last week respectable scientists of the Yale faculty announced completion of an electric machine which does very much what Abrams claimed for his condemned Oscilloclast. Professor Harold Saxton Burr, upright Yale neuroanatomist, learned son of a professor in the Y. M. C. A. at Springfield, Mass, calls the Yale machine "a vacuum tube microvolt-meter for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena." In the current Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine he and his colleagues give precise instructions for building the diagnostic machine and the principles on which it operates, something which Albert Abrams never provided for his device...
Abrams has invented numerous other machines. After the diagnosis is made, treatment is applied by the " oscilloclast." This is based on the principle that specific drugs possess the same vibratory rate as the diseases for which they are effective. By turning on the proper rate for a few treatments the "oscilloclast " clears " the disease. The machine is not for sale, but is leased for $200 down and $5 a month to Abrams graduates who will sign a contract not to open the apparatus. Other Abrams devices are the " electro-concussor;" the " biodynamometer," for determining "the potentiality of human energy...