

chiropractor, Ruth Drown, during the 1930s. The principles of distance healing were developed by a U.S. Investigators who examined the devices around the time of Abrams' death found nothing inside to which they could attribute potential medical benefit. His therapeutic machines were hermetically sealed and were not sold, only leased on the condition that they never be opened. The founding father of radionics was Albert Abrams, an American neurologist (1864 –1924) who believed that his machines could, from a sample of blood, hair, or even handwriting, determine a patient's sex, race, financial status, religion, and underlying causes of illness. The seeds of radionics can be found in radiesthesia, a diagnostic technique employing pendulums or dowsing rods developed by three French priests during the early 1900s. The device is then used to "broadcast" healing frequencies back to the patient, who may be hundreds of miles away.

Patients can be diagnosed and treated without even meeting the practitioner, who uses a radionic "black box" to tune into "vibrational frequencies" from a sample of hair or blood. Radionics is a highly controversial field that claims to detect and modulate life force using electronic devices.
