Ruth B. Drown

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Ruth Beymer Drown (* 1892 in Greeley (Colorado) , USA; † 1965 ) was an important representative in the development of classical radionics , an alternative medical procedure that can be summarized under the term of instrument- assisted remote or spiritual healing .

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Ruth Beymer Drown was born the third child of Annette and Morton Chase. Her father was a photographer by profession. She married when she was 19 and had a son and a daughter. After separating from her husband soon, she moved to Los Angeles and bought a gas station that she ran alone. After a few years she moved to the Southern California Edison Company , where she quickly rose to head of department due to her technical talent.

Inspired by a lecture on radio therapy according to Albert Abrams (Radionics) , she gave up her work at the Edison Company and was hired by Frederick Finch Strong . There she began to work on the Abrams method. She then switched to Thomas MacAllister, who supported her with books and medical knowledge. A year of study in Kirkville on histology and physiology followed. Due to an illness of her mother, Ruth Drown had to return to Los Angeles. There she attended a chiropractic college, graduated in 1926 and was licensed to run a chiropractic practice in 1927.

In 1929 Ruth Drown developed her first own radionics device and in 1937 the radio vision camera. Ruth Drown edited and published the "Journal of Drown Radio Therapy" and the magazine "The Philosopher's Stone". Ruth Drown was also active as a spiritual teacher and book author.

In a double-blind study at the University of Chicago , initiated by Drown supporters , Ruth Drown failed to make correct diagnoses, so that her method fell into disrepute. In 1951 she was charged with illegally shipping incorrectly declared devices across state borders and fined US $ 1,000. She then stopped shipping her Homo Vibra Ray machines, but continued to practice.

In 1963 she was arrested on charges of quackery and heavy media coverage and brought to trial in California. A legal battle ensued, before the end of which she died of a stroke in 1965 .

Drown radio therapy

In Ruth Drown's imagination, healthy and sick organs as well as illnesses and psychological states can be recognized on the basis of "vibration values" that should come from the sick person himself. Ruth Drown used devices she had developed herself, which were equipped with adjustable selector switches (potentiometers) and a friction plate as a detector. Using a so-called “witness”, usually a drop of blood or a hair of the patient, the type and severity of an illness was determined through specific settings of the selector switch and by means of the friction plate. The device was also able to carry out a suitable treatment by means of appropriate settings of the selector switch, also called rates.

In Ruth Drown's original devices, the patient was connected directly to the device via hand and foot electrodes. The hand electrodes were made of tin and the foot electrodes were made of nickel silver , which could have led to a slight current flow through the patient. Ruth Drown later also used devices for pure remote healing , in which the patient no longer had to be present and no longer physically connected to the device. Drown radio therapy has also come to be known as homo vibra treatment.

The radio vision camera

Ruth Drown developed a camera called radio vision , in which it should have been possible to take pictures of living tissue inside a patient. For this purpose, either the patient was brought into contact with the device via an electrode or a z. B. The patient's blood sample entered into the device. However, the photosensitive layer was not exposed as in photography . The radio vision camera is said to have only provided corresponding image material to specially trained or particularly talented personnel. The device itself was patented in 1939 under patent number GB515866, Method of and means for obtaining photographic images of living and other objects .

Other devices

Ruth Drown developed further devices tailored to special medical applications, but little is known about their structure. A long and short wave device for the treatment of bone fractures and the endocrine glands , a bleeding control device and a device based on magnetic fields are mentioned. In addition to the treatment devices , Ruth Drown also developed an automatic diagnosis unit for her homo vibra devices.

Continuation of the work of Ruth Drown

After the trial of Ruth Drown and her death, radionics remained largely banned for human use in the United States. Further development in the USA therefore concentrated on the agricultural sector ( UCKACO , Thomas Galen Hieronymus ). The device technology and imagination used by Ruth Drown was picked up in Great Britain by George de la Warr , who began to replicate the Drown devices and then developed them further.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruth B. Drown: The forty-nine degrees; a book of spiritual understanding and discovery: the road to divine truth. Greenwich Book Publishers, New York 1957, OCLC 34447244
2. ^ Ruth B. Drown: Wisdom from Atlantis. Kessinger Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4367-0967-5 .
3. ↑ Ralph Lee Smith: The Incredible Drown Case. In: Today's Health. a magazine published by the American Medical Association. April 1968 (online at: chirobase.org )
4. ↑ Ruth B. Drown, R. Murray: Denning Memorandum of fundamental radionic principles as developed by Dr Ruth B. Drown: based on her medical qualifications and complimentary with medical practice. R. Murray Denning Verlag, 1983, ISBN 0-9507861-5-2 .
5. ↑ Ruth B. Drown: Drown Radio Vision and Homo-Vibro-Ray Instruments and their use. ISBN 0-7873-1015-8 .
6. ↑ Ruth B. Drown: Atlas and selection of treatments. Verlag RW Denning, 1982, ISBN 0-9507861-2-8 .
7. ^ Ruth B. Drown: Theory and Technique of the Drown Radiotherapy. Society of Metaphysicians, ISBN 1-85810-646-X .
8. ↑ GB515866, Method of and means for obtaining photographic images of living and other objects. (on-line)