As our reader's will recollect, we suggested in the September issue in connection with the article therein entitled "Popular Demonstration of Thought Transference and Other Phenomena," by Dr. Albert Abrams, that they write us as to what success they have attained in conducting any of the experiments outlined by Dr. Abrams in this little known realm of science, and we are pleased to give herewith the views of Mr. J. W. White of Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. White having witnest a number of these tests as conducted by Dr. Abrams himself, when visiting San Francisco several years ago. Furthermore, Mr. White, who is in the electrical business in New York City, and a thoroughly wide-awake student of electrical and allied matters, had the satisfaction of taking part in some of the experiments in Dr. Abrams' laboratory, and his views as given below are those of an un-
prejudiced and unbiased student

Many people undoubtedly who have read the article in question have tried, unsuccessfully perhaps, to obtain results by unipolar currents, according to the theory of Dr. Abrams, such as for instance where the "percipient" or person interpreting the thought transference signal or message is connected to another person or body which forms the exciting point in the unipolar (single wire) circuit.

Here, for example, is what Mr. White experienced, and in this connection it is well to remember that the high professional standing of Dr. Abrams in the medical and scientific fields precludes all doubt of any fake or misrepresented reactions or phenomena, however little we may as yet know as to the exact mode in which such phenomena take place. First Dr. Abrams placed Mr. White in a separate laboratory room and gave him a permanent steel bar magnet, which as we all know has a North and South pole at the alternate ends. The Doctor instructed Mr. White to present either magnet pole as he might elect to the steam radiator in the room, when he would be able to tell in his instrument laboratory just which end of the magnet he had presented. According to the theory of Dr. Abrams, the action here was as follows:

That the electronic discharge from the magnet, even when held a short distance from the radiator, charged the metal piping system, and this particular discharge past along thru the radiator and metal piping to the laboratory where an instrument or a human substitute for the instrument was connected by one wire to another radiator connected to the system. In this connection it is interesting to note that Dr. Abrams usually prefers to employ some delicate human reflex, such as the heart or stomach reflex, for indicating when one of these extremely minute electric currents arise, and which agents he claims are' many hundred thousand times more sensitive to minute currents than are the most delicate scientific instruments such as galvanometers, etc.

To sum up this experiment. Dr. Abrams was able to tell quickly just which magnet pole Mr. White had presented to the radiator, not making a single miss in twenty tests. One of the most astounding phases of this particular experiment was when the Doctor informed Mr. White that it was not at all necessary that he present the magnet to the radiator, so as either to touch it or approach close up to it, but that he could determine which pole of the magnet the investigator was thinking of if he would but lay it on the floor and concentrate his mind on one of the poles. This experiment was checked up by a considerable number of tests, and Dr. Abrams was able to tell the pole concentrated on in Mr.- White's mind each time.

One of the experiments which will interest our readers very greatly, especially those who read the article referred to in the September issue, was that where Mr. White became the "percipient." To show the effect of the electric currents in the body. Dr. Abrams had a strong man placed in a separate laboratory, several rooms away from where Mr. White was located, and both this man and Mr. White were connected by a single copper wire. A number of heavy weights were placed in the room with the strong man. The percipient — Mr. White - had attached to one of his fingers a pulse detector of these minute electronic currents, as devised by Dr. Abrams, comprising a small rubber tube strapt to the finger; this tube being connected by means of a rubber tube with a small pneumatic chamber attached to a pivoted arm, the free end of which carried an electric contact for opening and closing a signal circuit. The contacts on this instrument were connected with a battery and an electric signaling bell.

This pulse indicator was connected and acted in the same way, upon the receipt of each electronic wave or current, as the straw pulse needle indicator described in the article referred to.

This is what happened every time the strong man lifted the weights in the distant part of the laboratory buildings: An electronic current apparently shot along the wire and acted to cause a heart reflex in the percipient's (Mr. White's) body, which manifested itself at the pulse, and in turn this action repeated itself thru the rubber tube attached to the finger, thus causing the pneumatic diafram chamber to vibrate and move the pivot arm attached to it, which in turn caused the electric signal bell to ring each time a weight was lifted by the "agent."

Probably some of the most remarkable tests which Mr. White personally saw performed by Dr. Abrams were those where he was enabled to differentiate between different disease germs, and in some cases even the disease affecting a patient over a telephone or other wire. For some of these and other tests Dr. Abrams has devised a very interesting instrument to take the place of the stomach reflex, thus doing away with the necessity of a "live" percipient. This instrument comprises an aluminum cylinder covered at one end with a tightly stretched diafram of goldbeater's skin. The metallic bell or rather shell of this instrument is connected to the single unipolar terminal used in this arrangement, instead of connecting the wire to a human percipient or interpreter, and whenever an electronic current was received over the wire, the tone of the bell, as produced by striking the diafram with a small hammer, is caused to be either resonant or full, or else dull, according to the reaction taking place. Moreover, disease germs such as tuberculosis, cancer, and pneumonia have their own vibration period or wave length, according to his most remarkable work, "New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment." He outlines forms of wireless tuning aparatus comprising condensers, tuning coils, etc., for the purpose of measuring the exact wave length or vibration index of these electronic currents as they are received over a telephone or other wire and interpreted by the instrument just described, or by recourse to a human percipient employing the stomach or other reflex. The stomach reflex is one in which the percussion sound given by the stomach when struck with the fingers over that portion of the body is dulled when an electronic current is received.