Abrams also found out that this layout made it possible to examine the effect of
medicines, particularly homoeopathy. He poured into the cup containing the patient
specimen a corresponding medicine. If this medicine helped the patient with his
condition, then the positive reflex on the abdomen of the test person would disappear.
If, for example, the specimen of a malaria patient was poured into the cup and
the corresponding value for malaria had been set on the variable resistance box,
on the abdomen of the test person a positive reflex would be obtained. If a medicine
to cure malaria, such as Quinine, was combined with the patient specimen in the cup,
then the positive reflex would disappear, i.e. quinine would help this patient to
combat malaria.