The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com Frank Jones:  Abram's Oscilloclast Dr. Abrams was called the "Father of Radionics" and was also probably one of the most world renowned quack medicine peddlers.   Abrams professed that all organisms possessed a natural unique vibration and any disease could both be diagnosed and cured by those vibrations.   He made claims he could diagnose a disease by a singe drop of blood and marketed a machine in the early 1920's called an Oscilloclast, that he claimed would cure a myriad of diseases, including cancer. This machine was never for sale but always leased to practitioners for a fairly healthy sum of money.   The Oscilloclast consisted of a very distinctive electro-mechanical interrupter commonly referred to as a tic-toc. This interrupter consisted of 2 double wound electromagnets and a pendulum mechanism that delivered approximately 200 interruptions a minute. The interrupter has a different commutator that both ran the device as well as supplied a second set of points that has a longer connect time and then a rapid break.   Click here to read patent This interrupter supplied power to an air core transformer, essentially a Tesla coil that was short circuited. The output of this coil was connected to 3 parallel switched resistor banks. Each resistor in these banks was 1000 ohms, a value Abrams felt was in resonance with organisms. The output of each bank was connected to a single binding post and this post was then electrically connected to the patient. Thus The patient was in series with the circuit and the resistors. Multiples of 1000 ohms were selectable, 0, 1000, 2000, 3000,... up to 10,000 ohms.   Click here to read booklet The different values of resistance would "cure" different diseases.   Because of the circuit, these machines actually produced a high frequency damped oscillation of low output. The FDA quickly came down on Abrams and confiscated these machines and destroyed them. Of course some have survived and are very collectable today.   Abrams continued to made "modern" versions of these machines using vacuum tubes and operating around 49 Mhz. The first one was still called an Oscilloclast (same name as his original) and had 10 push buttons with the same value resistors to treat the patient. A later version was called an Oscillotron and was identical to the earlier tube one with the exception the output resistor bank was now driven by a motor so all 10 resistances were "automatically" put in series with the patient to cover all diseases at once instead of only one "button" at a time. Click here to read manual In addition to the HF output, these sets also had 2 electromagnets to give a 60HZ field and was also modulated with the HF. These electromagnets could be put on the body, typically in the chest or abdomen region.   Click here to read patent   Until recently, it was thought only Abrams used the original Oscilloclast design but an Oscilloclast clone was recently found that was made by The Western X ray Corp. also of San Francisco, the same place the original machines were made. It uses the same circuit as the original machine only the Tesla coil is in a much smaller box and was potted and the tic-toc has a different points system but otherwise identical both in size and design to the original patent that was incorporated on the original machine.   The original machines are part of a famous history of quack and now this new machine opens up even more mysteries about the Oscilloclast and Abrams. At one time, The Jehovah Witness promoted and sold/ leased these machines (along with the violet ray) and Abrams ideas in their watchtower publications and the principles was called the ERA or Electronic Reactions of Abrams. Click above to read manual   Even today, Abrams is still highly regarded by some groups and some of his principles are still practiced and machines made based on his original designs, especially radionics type devices.