HISTORY OF ELOPTIC ENERGY DETECTION
Excerpt from: RADIONICS:A Science for the New Age
by:Edward W. Russell
NOTE:
This page requires a little reading but gives a good description of the beginnings of Radionic studies.
This article talks mostly about
Albert Abrams
but also mentions Hieronymus in the last paragraph.
Will also post a picture of two Abrams machines soon.
  Development in an instrumented form dates from the basic discoveries of Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco just after the turn of the century. We owe these discoveries to a most unusual and fortunate combinations of circumstances: First, Abrams had had an exceptional medical training. After qualifying to receive a medical diploma in California before he was old enough, he learned German and graduated in medicine with the highest possible honors from Heidelberg University. Second, he had inherited great wealth and could afford spending a long time doing post-graduate work in Heidelburg, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, and London, under the foremost researchers of the day. Later his wealth allowed him to finance his own researches and contemptuously ignore those who accused him of using his discoveries to make money. Third, he became a pupil and later the friend of Herman L. von Helmholtz, one of the great scientific figures of the time, who aroused his interest in the burgeoning science of physics. This stimulated him to try to correlate the laws of biology with the laws of physics. Last- and perhaps most important- Abrams by nature was an exceptionally perceptive and persistent observer. Little escaped his trained observation and he counted no effort too great in trying to find the cause of some phenomenon he had noticed.

   In 1910, while examining a patient with a cancerous ulcer on his lip, Abrams detected a small area of the abdomen which yielded a dull note under percussion with his fingers. After further tests, he made the remarkable discovery that the dull note could only be detected when facing west. This suggested that he was dealing with a phenomenon, perhaps of an "electronic" nature which was influenced by the earth's magnetic field.

   This led the ever-ingenius Abrams to connect his patient with a wire to a healthy young man, and he made the further discovery that the cancerous "emanations" from the patient induced a dull note in the same area in the young man's abdomen. Later he found that the presence of the patient was unnecessary- a sample of his blood was sufficient to induce a reflex action in the abdominal muscles to produce a dull note.

   Convinced by now that he was on the track of something important which might help him to correlate the laws of biology and medicine, he made test after test, using patients who were suffering from a variety of diseases. He found that each disease yielded a dull note in one specific area of the abdomen; and he thought that he had found a new tool for diagnosis until he observed that samples from syphilitic patients yielded dull notes in the same area as a sample from cancerous patients.

   Undaunted- and believing that the "emanations" from diseased blood were electronic- he introduced a variable resistance bow into the circuit. By varying the resistance, he found he could "tune out" different diseases and could assign to each a value of ohms. He names this discovery " the electronic reactions of Abrams" or " E.R.A." and had one of the finest instrument makers of those days to make most accurate resistance-boxes. For many years these were used by Abrams and his pupils in the diagnosis of diseases.

   Some of his pupils found the art of percussing the surface of someones abdomen difficult to acquire. For them Abrams found an alternative method: stroking the surface of the abdomen with a glass rod. When the emanations produced a reflex in the muscles under the skin, the rod would encounter resistance and the skin would tend to pucker.

   Early in his experiments it occurred to Abrams to try to find the effects of well-known antidotes for certain diseases. When, for example, he put a sample of quenine into his apparatus, along with a specimen of malarial blood, he made another basic discovery; the radiations from the quinine neutralized the radiations from the malarial blood and eliminated the dull note. This led him to apply E.R.A. to the treatment of disease. With the aid of one of the foremost radio experts of the time, Abrams devised an instrument he called the
"oscilloclast." This was connected to the patient by a wire and electrode and produced intermittent negative potentials and radio frequencies. In circuit was a resistance box tuned to the value in ohms of the specific for the disease, which he had determined with his diagnostic instrument. Abrams and his pupils had great success in treating patients with the oscilloclast and the instrument was in use for many years.

   With tireless energy, Abrams worked on his discoveries up to the night before his sudden death in 1924. He made many discoveries, the significance of which have yet to be fully explored. But, despite vast expenditures of time and money, he was never able to find an effective substitute for the human mind and body as a detector. Though substitutes for the abdomen have been found and are in use today, in every case the human mind and nervous system are essential.

   Fortunately, imaginative doctors from all over the world came to San Francisco to take post graduate courses in E.R.A. Thus, Abrams' influence extended far beyong his own clinic and others were inspired to follow in his footsteps. Some of them have made great contributions to the development of what has come to be called
Radionics. But the present science owes its origin to the basic discoveries described above, which might never have been made but for the exceptionally perceptive genius of Albert Abrams.

   Most of the medical doctors who had taken Abrams' courses were so successful in diagnosis and treatment and sobusy with grateful patients that they had little time or inclination to do much research. But the publicity given to the "Electronic Reactions of Abrams" had excited the interest of imaginative people out side the medical profession and had encouraged them to experiment for themselves.

 
Radionics owes its next great impetus to a pioneer of radio, Thomas Galen Hieronymus, formerly of Kansas City, who produced some ingenius instruments which used vacuum tubes for "amplification" and condensers, instead of resistances, for "tuning." To Hieronymus belongs the honor of being awarded one of the most unusual patents ever granted by the U. S. Patent Office. This patent-# 2,482,773 granted in 1949-describes an instrument for the "detection of emanations from materials and measurement of the volumes thereof." As a detector, it used a rubbing-plate, which, by this time, many were using instead of the human abdomen. When the plate is stroked, the fingers encounter tactile resistance or a "stick" when the emanation is tuned in.
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