Diary of a Physician
New York: Modern Press Corporation, 1923.
Illustrated by William Gropper. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #16728
Tone, 1/4" scrape to bottom front cover, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Medical humor by the controversial Albert Abrams MD, inventor of the ERA (Electronic Reactions of Abrams) machines which were claimed to diagnose disease from aberrant electrical vibrations in blood samples, and considered by many the most notorious quack of all time. Judith A Overmier and John Edward Senior; Books and Manuscripts of The Bakken, page 333. First published in 1900, St Louis: Fortnightly Press, under title: Scattered Leaves from a Physician's Diary. Abrams' Diary is a collection of occasionally scathing vignettes on the foibles of modern medicine, enlivened by illustrations by radical cartoonist William Gropper. ; Cartoons; 96 pages.
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