Early Days
Abrams was born in San Francisco around 1863, giving dates a couple of years either way on occasions. Between 1910 and 1918, Abrams published several books on a medical technique he called spondylotherapy, a manipulative technique not dissimilar to chiropractic and osteopathy, but involving electricity. Abrams described the theory and practice of spondylotherapy in a 1910 book by that name.
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