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In April 1925 The Golden Age gave its lead article to a device called the Electronic Radio Biola, said to diagnose and treat disease automatically by radio vibration with a diagnosis that 'is 100 percent correct', and printed above it an editor's note saying the magazine 'has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble'.

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In April 1925 The Golden Age gave its lead article to a device called the Electronic Radio Biola, said to diagnose and treat disease automatically by radio vibration with a diagnosis that 'is 100 percent correct', and printed above it an editor's note saying the magazine 'has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble'. Source: The Golden Age, 22 April 1925

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The Golden Age, “Automatic Electronic Diagnosis”

22 April 1925 · pp.451-455 · Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute · Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin (The Golden Age), Brooklyn, New York

“[The Golden Age has fullest confidence in any representations that may be made by Doctor Gamble. He is well known to many of our readers and we are sure they will read this important article with great interest.—Editor.]”

The editor's bracketed note at the head of the issue's lead article, printed above a by-line reading 'By Dr. R. A. Gamble, Dean of the Norfolk Electronic Institute.' The article promotes the 'Electronic Radio Biola', a device the author says he invented: 'The Biola automatically diagnoses and treats diseases by the use of the electronic vibrations. The diagnosis is 100 percent correct'. The author praises the “famous Abrams' Electronic system” on which the device is built, and calls it a discovery 'which I am exclusively announcing in The Golden Age prior to its general publication elsewhere'.

Provenance and verification note for The Golden Age, Automatic Electronic Diagnosis

Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaves mapped to printed pages 451-455; the masthead is on the same leaf as the article's opening. Scanner hyphenation closed up; no words changed.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-golden-age-1925'; page numbers from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume VI ... Wednesday, April 22, 1925 ... Number 146'.

Corroborated by. src-hlth-ga-1925-1202-mission-golden-age

Notes. The article's own text says of the Biola that 'its price brings it within the reach of every family, even those in the poorest circumstances'. The article is a signed contribution; the bracketed endorsement printed above it is the magazine's own.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1925-0422-electronic-diagnosis

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