THE ROBOT DOCTOR

Radio Record, 1 July 1938, Page 8

THE ROBOT DOCTOR

| Special to the "Record" | | |

DY

MICHAEL

LORANT

Startling Claims For His Discovery By An Austratian Scientist |

S it possible for. modern science to perfect a "Robot Doctor?" Certain research workers'in the field of electrotherapy claim.that it is. | Here, in an exclusive interview, is the strange story of aneven stranger invention. Whether or not there is "anything in it’ remains . for science to prove in its own good time.

HEN. ‘Marconi ‘first. discovered ‘ "a’practical ap- (| plication. for the principles. of radio, he probably "had no ‘idea’ of © the variety of ,uses to which. it would eventually be put... To-day there ispractically: .no « field’ .of

science which' does not put to Oo ; its own particular use some specialised offshoot of it. Medicine is no exception, Research in the field of electro-therapy is increasing each year. Scientists are More and more convinced by experiments that only the tringes of the subject have been touched. Latest and most startling claim to discovery in the field of electro-therapy is that of Captain C. 8. Price, a former member of the Australian Army Medical Corps, who recentiy demonstrated in London a machine which, he avers, diagnoses disease automatically and which, also automatically, gives vibratory treatment to benefit the abnormal condition! If Captain Price’s claim stands up uuder the searchlights of science, mankind will have its first Robot Doctor! ABoUr fifteen years ago, a famous American pioneer in the field of electrotherapy, Dr. Albert Abrams, constructed a simple little machine incorporating the principle which it is claimed the Robot Doctor improves and elaborates beyond recognition. But let Captain Price plead the case for his invention in his own words: _ "In these days few people," he told me, " believe that the human body is simply an accidental accumulation of cells-just a mass of miscellaneous chemical elemeuts-a mechanical combination of organs, bones, blood-cells and flesh. If the human body were these things and nothing more, any chemist might assemble its parts in the laboratory. "But there is a hidden, invisible force in the human body which no scientist can capture in his test tube, a power. which’ for want of a better word, we call ‘Life’-the impulse_

which keeps the intricate mechanism of the human pody in motion, the vital force which js constantly combating the diseases and disorders of the human body. "This vital force, like all life, ig vibratory in its nature, All human body tissue vibrates, and it has now been established that diseased human tissue has entirely different vibratory characteristics from normal tisgue or cell activity. Each disease has its own char: acteristics as well as an independent rate of vibration,

and this appartus of mine enables these vibrations tu be collected from the human body, amplified, segregated and measured itl intensity. And so theit character is ascertainedwhether dormant, active or virulent. "TN addition to thus diagnacinge anv: disease eondi-

tions, even befure they are pathologically manifest, ail extension of my apparatus can be made to operate on the same disease vibrations ina person, so that they are reversed in phrase according to well-known laws in physics, in such 2 manuwer as to produce neutralisation of the diseased: coudition. "My apparatus, the Radidnic, is the result of many years of experiment and research, and acknowledgement is made to the monumental works of such pioneers as Dr. Albert Abrams, Dr. Starr White, and particularly Dr..G. W. Wigelsworth, inventor of the modern and efficient instrument known as the pathoclast. . "MHE Robot Doctor," as my machine is called, in general yery much resembles a short-wave wireless set and tuning in on a radio set; but whereas with the radio we tune into known wavelengths of certain stations, with the Radionie we tune into known yibratory rates of disease. "Also with the radio set the waves we are receiving can be reproduced. as sound by various methods of loud speakers or earphones. In ‘The Robot Doctor," we are receiving a new kind of vibration, which it is not yet convenient to classify by sound; therefore, in place of apparatus to make the vibrations audible, we use instruments to record their intensity or potency. Apart from disease vibrations, it gives an accurate reading of the amount of vitality, as well as the amount of resistance of the body to any diseased condition, We thus obtain a valuable ratio of dominance of the disease over the natural fighting forces of the body

at any given stage of illness, and so are able to get 4 prognosis of yery real yalue. " HILST natuWwW rally the personal presence of a patient is neeessary for treatment, my. apparatus has the adviutage that diagnosis can be made with equal accuracy either by collecting the vibrations direct from the patient orwhere it is not vonvenieat to attend personallyby using certain speciinens from the patient, suck as a few drops of blood on blottiug- _ paper; or a smuil (Cont, on p, 89.)

"'The Robot Doctor

RADIO'S NEW USE? (Continued from page 8.) sample of sputum, . T is interesting: to note that while disease in all individuals registers at a similar rate for the same disease, the disease vibrations of each person bave different characteristics-just as an individual's face, writing, finger- _ prints or anything else abont him. differs from that of anyone else in the world. This is an important factor, particularly in treatment. "The Robot Doctor’ is so constructed that it will ‘piek up, amplify, reverse in phase and return to the patient only his or her ‘}dentical vibrations: neutralisation, which, operated In..treatment, cannot take place unless the -same identical vibration, and no other, 1s affected with the treatment; no approximation of any kind will answer. "The vibrations are collected’ from the patient by a specially designed antenna ot collector, nnd go to the Instrament by wire. There they are greatly amplitied (technically 380. 000 times) by an ingenious cireuit of screen grid valves such as are used in radio, and, . after being thrown out of phase 120 eo degrees, are returned to the body to neutralise the disease by an amplified intensity of its own vibration. "The apparatus treats automatically, giving the correct treatment to each patient totally independent of diagnosis and obviating any necessity of manufacturing an arbitrary wavelength whieh can, in any ease, only be approximate. It only ‘operates when the patient’s own yibrations are in circuit, and, therefore, cannot deliver any disease #bration to the patient from which ‘he or she is not suffering, ‘Io eliminate the irritating causes of trouble, treatment ‘by ‘The Rohot Doctor" Is entirely pleasant and ¢comfortable; a few minutes only‘each day at. first-less frequently later-during which time the patient’ sits comfortably in the elrenity and feels nothing bat a: pleasant sense of relaxation," . "THow much. real value and: reliance : ean’ be placed on the inventor’s claims : it yet remains for prolonged research to indicate, but if in one-tenth part the '~ claims for the "robot doctor" are estabone of enoech-making importance, ' ‘lished, thé invention may. prove to, be