“NOT FAIRLY TREATED.”

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1925, Page 4

“NOT FAIRLY TREATED.”

Mc'KEXZIE CASE RECALLED.

"WELLINGTON, July 27. In the light of the recent appeal of |)r Dundas .McKenzie against Ids lining struck off the roll of the British .Medical Association, it is interesting to record the opinion of Mr Alexander .Markv, v, ho lias come from America as an advocate of the Abrams method of diagnosis an.l treatment of disease, and wi:o considers that Dr MaeKenzie lias not been treated quite fairly. llis reasons for this assertion were enumerated to a “lim.es” reporter last evening, when Mr Markv said although it Wits difiieult for him after being in the country but a lew days to weigh the various merits of the ease, front what he bad read of the evidence ho was forced to the conclusion already expressed. "Whatsoever may tieentheca.se in this particular trial,” said -Mr Markv, “if Dr .MaeKenzie is aettscod of inventing disease symptoms and then treating these for a consideration—l understand this is why ho was struck olf the regi-ter—l think a large number of honourable medical men and surgeons m the I luted States would be olf the roll long before this, for they thenvtelves admit that in ot) eases out of 100 their diagnosis is incorrect. If their diagnosis is incorrect:, then it is only logical to assume that their treatment is also incorrect. I substantiate this by quoting the words ot one of the greatest doctors of the world - Dr Richard ('. Cabot— n professor of medicine, and head of the State Genend Hospital, .Massachusetts, who stated recently that according to postmortem examinations, 17 out ot every 1(13 cases were wrongly diagnosed. "T'bis, of course, does not aflect- the merits of the McKenzie ease, but as tar as I can gather this is one of the main reasons why he was struck oil. EARLY DIAGNOSIS.

"Hut there is another angle u! this matter. That is the difference between the Abrnms treainv.’iit ant! the old-fashioned methods ot din tnosis. While the clinical diagnosis is only useful when there is a clinical physical—manifestation of disease, the Abrams method will recognise disease in its infancy before there are any outward signs at all. The old-fashioned physicians can only deal with cancer when (here is a cancerous growth, but with the Abram- method, one can discern disease when there is an indication in the system that tends towards a cancerous growth. It is possible that tho men using this method can diagnose the condition within the hotly with accuracy—as has been proved while the old-fashioned doctor, will sav it cannot lie there, lie will, therefore, condemn it because it escapes bis observations. "This method of diagnosis and treatment i- practised by approximately 27(111 physicians in the D.S.A., and there is hardly a city in the States that it without it. The cures that have been recorded have made tn> a list ot miraculous accomplishments.

Till-: BASIC TIIEOKV. “It is a strange thing that that Hr Abrams based his whole wonderful revolutionary theory upon foundations luiilt by one of Xew Zealand's greatest minds that of Sir Ernest Rutherford. Before he could do anything in developing his theory he had to study everything that Rutherford had done, and use his electronic foundation as a basis. It would he well for Xew Zealand physicians to remember what their follow countryman has done before (ondenming something that is hound to revolutionise medicine so completely that in ten years it will not he recognised. “What is the Abrams method ? It is pure physics, and has nothing to do with medicine. IL is the lirst setenliPuapproach to dealing with disease that has entered the profession. It is based up m the belief that matter is composed of vibrating elections, and that at the bottom of all disease there is vibratory harmony. Disease as we know it is a .secondary manifestation of what is going on within the human system,. Abrams goes beyond the .symptoms. and finds the origin, for the symptom is only the example id something that has preceded it. He found the origin in the vibrations. Then, having found the cause, ho proceeded to eliminate it.”