
His Rife Frequency Generator allegedly generates radio waves with precisely the same frequency, causing the offending bacteria to shatter in the same manner as a crystal glass breaks in response to the voice of an opera singer. During the 1920s, he claimed to have developed a powerful microscope that could detect living microbes by the color of auras emitted by their vibratory rates.
One of Abrams’s many imitators was Royal Raymond Rife (1888-1971), an American who claimed that cancer was caused by bacteria.
Similar devices have been produced by many others and are still marketed today. During the 1950s, an FDA investigation showed that some of Abrams’s devices produced magnetism from circuits like that of an electric doorbell, whereas others had short-wave circuits resembling those of a taxicab transmitter. Users were qequired to sign a conract that said they would not open the box, which was said to be hermetically sealed.
Diseases could be treated by feeding proper vibrations into the body with another of his devices.Ībrams made a fortune by leasing the device rather than selling it. Illnesses-as well as age, sex, religion, and location-could be diagnosed by “tuning in” on patient’s blood or handwriting samples with one of his devices. All parts of the body emit electrical impulses with different frequencies that vary with health and disease. Abrams made millions leasing his devices and was considered by the American Medical Association to be the “dean of gadget quacks.” He claimed: (1864-1924), who developed thirteen devices claimed to detect such frequencies and/or cure people by matching their frequencies. The theory behind it originated with Albert Abrams, M.D. Radionics is a pseudoscience based on the notion that diseases can be diagnosed and treated by tuning in on radio-like frequencies allegedly emitted by disease-causing agents and diseased organs.