Editing Albert Abrams (section)

===Debunking===
An AMA member sent a blood sample to an Abrams practitioner, and got back a diagnosis that the patient had [[malaria]], diabetes, cancer and syphilis. The blood sample was in fact from a [[Plymouth Rock (chicken)|Plymouth Rock rooster]].<ref name=Kaplan>[https://centerforinquiry.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2023/04/09193429/albert-abrams-fakery.pdf Doctor Abrams - Dean of Machine Quacks], by Jack Kaplan, in ''Today's Health''; published April 1966; archived at the [[Center for Inquiry]]</ref>

Similar samples were sent to other Abrams practitioners, and a few found themselves facing fraud charges in court. In a case in [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]], Abrams was called to be a witness, but he died of [[pneumonia]] at age 60 shortly before the trial began in January 1924.<ref>{{cite news
 | title ="Blood Healer" is Tried for Fraud| newspaper =The Evening Independent| date =January 14, 1924
 | url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CvtPAAAAIBAJ&pg=2758,934706&dq=albert+abrams+jonesboro&hl=en| access-date =July 24, 2012}}</ref> After his death, investigators with the [[Food and Drug Administration]] opened some of the doctor's boxes. One produced a magnetic field, similar to a doorbell; another was a low-powered radio wave transmitter.<ref>{{cite news | last =Frost | first =Helena| title =Quacks Thrive Because People Want Quick Cures
 | newspaper =Beaver County Times| publisher =UPI| date =May 14, 1960
 | url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uLwuAAAAIBAJ&pg=1422,2298390&dq=albert+abrams+md&hl=en| access-date =July 24, 2012}}</ref>

Psychologist [[Donovan Rawcliffe]] claimed that Abrams' devices had no scientific validity but his successors had "founded a good many special clinics in the United States and their number has by no means diminished in the ensuing years."<ref>[[Donovan Rawcliffe|Rawcliffe, Donovan]]. (1988). ''Occult and Supernatural Phenomena''. Dover Publications. pp. 364-366. {{ISBN|0-486-25551-4}}</ref>