Multi-wave oscillator

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The multi-wave oscillator is a device developed by the inventor Georges Lakhovsky during the interwar period , which is supposed to be used to generate high-frequency electromagnetic waves . Lakhovsky claimed to be able to use it to fight cancer . For this he put forward a speculation about electromagnetic vibrations in cells. However, intracellular processes cannot be influenced as described by Lakhovsky.

Structure and alleged functional principle

Multi-wave oscillator according to Georges Lakhovsky.

According to the patent, the multi-wave oscillator essentially consists of two so-called Lakhovsky antennas made of ring-shaped conductors and a Tesla transformer as the exciter. In a publication from 1937, which appeared in English translation in 1941, Lakhovsky described a prototype of the device with so-called antennas made up of twelve circular conductor loops, each terminated by spheres, with gaps offset by 180 °. This optical effect is also reproduced by later replications of the device. The electromagnetic waves generated are supposed to stimulate the cells of living beings to vibrate and thereby lead to the healing of cancer.

In the patent, Lakhovsky did not explicitly limit the multi-wave oscillator for medical technology applications, but described the device in his publications mainly in connection with "oncological experiments" that seem absurd from today's point of view as well as in view of the contemporary state of knowledge. Among other things, Lakovsky carried out experiments on geraniums infected with Agrobacterium tumefaciens , whose bulbous growths he misunderstood as carcinomas.

The multi-wave oscillator has been banned as a quackery by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA ).

hazards

Scammers used the multi-wave oscillator as a device for cancer therapy in California in the late 1960s. If an effective cancer therapy is foregone, there is naturally a much higher risk of death for affected patients.

The use of a multi-wave oscillator, like any other application of high voltage, may result in a power accident .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harvey Lodish, Arnold Berk, S. Lawrence Zipursky, Paul Matsudaira, David Baltimore: Molecular Cell Biology . 4th edition. WH Freeman, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7167-3136-8 ( nih.gov [accessed May 1, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Monika Offenberger: cells under power . In: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Weiter.vorn . No. 1 , 2011.
  3. ↑ Patent US1962565 : Apparatus with circuits oscillating under multiple wave lengths. Registered November 13, 1931 , published June 12, 1934 , inventor: Georges Lakhovsky. ‌
  4. ^ Georges Lakhovsky: Radiations and Waves: Sources of Our Life . EL Cabella, 1941.
  5. ^ Georges Lakhovsky: L'Origine de la vie: la radiation et les ętres vivants . Editions Nilsson, 1925.
  6. ↑ Christopher Bird : The persecution and trial of Gaston Naessens: the true story of the efforts to suppress an alternative treatment for cancer, AIDS, and other immunologically based diseases. HJ Kramer 1991. p. 290.
  7. ↑ California nips Quackery . In: FDA Papers . February 1968. US Food and Drug Administration, 1968, pp. 30 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 19, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Skyler B. Johnson, Henry S. Park, Cary P. Gross, James B. Yu: Use of Alternative Medicine for Cancer and Its Impact on Survival . In: JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute . tape 110 , no. 1 , January 1, 2018, ISSN  0027-8874 , p. 121–124 , doi : 10.1093 / jnci / djx145 ( oup.com [accessed April 19, 2020]).