b'P resideNtsN oteThe National Health Federations 100-Year-Old RootsDid Dr. Abrams work actually lead to the founding of NHF?BY SCOTT C. TIPS, NHF PRESIDENTI n late 2021, just before the fierceAn Unusual Mantheusing aall electromagnetic beings as much as winterstormsbrokethatyear,One hundred years ago, a San Fran- we are biochemical beings. Curiously, theNationalHealthFederationcisco physician, Dr. Albert Abrams, be- Dr. Abrams discovered that a persons (NHF)moveditsofficesfromcame famous for the accurate diagnoseslifespan can be predicted by the vital-southern California to central Washing- and treatments of his patientsity of that persons blood. Years before tonState.Supervisingandorganizingradiowave device calledReflexo- his own death, the doctor predicted his the California end of the move was thephone.Withthisdevice,Dr.Abramspassing in early January 1924, which did NHFsmuch-appreciatedArtDirectorsaid he could detect cancer, tuberculosis,happen when he died on January 13th of and general go-to-guy Ben Lizardi. Be- and other diseases with just a drop of thethat year. Doubters at the time scoffed at cause of space limitations in the truck,patients blood. Even more, Dr. Abramsthis accuracy and one even claimed that some of NHFs items ended up tempo- said, that a single drop of blood would[h]e believed so thoroughly in his the-rarily in Bens garage until they could bealso reveal the subjects age, his race, hisory of vital energy that he killed himself sent North. emotions at the time the blood samplethinking about it. (Sunday Magazine, Almost one year later, while reorganiz- was taken, and the probable length ofSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 16, 1924, ing his garage, Ben came across an old,his life. Because the blood carries all theat page 5)blackscrapbooklabeledExhibitC,bodys radiations, Dr. Abrams foundOf course, before and after death, Dr. containing a large number of yellowingthat it could therefore be used in place ofAbrams work was denounced just as and fragile newspaper clippings from thethe actual presence of the patient in hisNHF Founder Fred Harts work with early 1920s about a now largely forgottenexamining room. electromagneticcureswasattacked doctor who had pioneered electromag- The enterprising and successful doc- by the Food and Drug Administration netic medicine. The scrapbook appearstor established clinics in many cities in(FDA) thirty years later. The American to have been intended for legal counsel,the United States as well as in London.Medical Association and the Scientific most probably for the legal fight over elec- An electric sign on Londons TrafalgarAmericanbothclaimedthattheRe-tromagnetic medicine that NHF Founder,Square even advertised his clinic there. Inflexophone did not work even though Fred J. Hart, had had with the U.S. Food1922, he established the nonprofit Elec- so many patients had been helped that and Drug Administration (FDA) the yeartronic Medical College, later renamed thewhen Dr. Abrams died, he had accumu-before Hart founded the NHF in 1955.Electronic Medical Foundation. lated a huge estate of $2 million (in 1924 Memories may fade, but they can also beDr. Abrams based his work upon hisdollars) and bequeathed it to a hospital revived, especially by a scrapbook thattheorythatelectronsarethefounda- he had founded that used his treatments. reveals an amazing story. tion of life and health, and that we areAs we all know, though, the FDA has 6 H ealtHF reedomN ews /F all2022NHF_40-3_Linda_11-25-2022.indd 6 11/25/22 8:02 AM'