“Over 50 per cent. of pain and human suffering is due to the nerves crying for food; the Phosphatometer will show the true cause in ten minutes.”
“The Index not only tells the present condition, but foretells the future, thus preventing serious complications which might arise.”
“The Phosphatometer measures the amount of phosphorus in the system.”
“The Dowd Phosphatometer not only takes blood-pressure, it tells how to regulate it.”
“The Phosphatometer measures the amount of phosphorus in the nerve cells; it is as positive in nerve troubles as the x-ray in fractures.”
These claims are essentially false. As a matter of fact, a simple examination of the urine for phosphates cannot tell us the condition of the nervous system. This must be evident from the fact that only a portion of the phosphates is excreted in the urine, a very considerable part passing out with the feces. Further, the bulk of the phosphorus excreted comes from the food and only a small portion from the waste of the nervous system. The amount excreted by the urine which comes from torn-down nerve tissue is so small that it is practically impossible to estimate variations in it even by the most careful analytic methods.
In brief, Dowd’s “scientific method” is nothing more than unscientific humbug.—(From The Journal A. M. A., Dec. 20, 1913.)