Lakhovsky employed spark-gap oscillators, Tesla coils, and even vacuum-tube oscillators, and he put some of these devices into patent. The Lakhovsky multiple-wave oscillator (MWO) terminates in a distinctive frequency-independent antenna consisting of a number of concentric open rings of different diameters. The MWO antenna provides full-body stimulation to the patient, who is situated a few feet distant from one of these or between a matching pair.

Tesla's electrotherapy idea was taken up as well by Arsene D'Arsonval and Paul Ouden. One finds in the Tesla coil literature many mentions of an "Ouden coil" when a Tesla coil is obviously meant. This has perplexed some researchers who conclude Ouden's coil had to be special, but he had just made it a safer apparatus. They point out that the bottom grounded end of Ouden's primary and that of the secondary were connected together, but one finds this hook-up in Tesla's work as well. Perhaps, as Tesla's name became taboo in the media, writers and editors chose to call the device by Dr. Ouden's name to play it safe.

Lakhovsky called his book The Secret of Life, no less. The ability to electrostimulate living tissue at the subcellular level and thus energize the life force within has huge medical implications.

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Organized medicine (which works hand-in-hand with pharmaceutical corporations, which in turn work hand-in-hand with the mass media) distracts the public from the observation that the myriad diseases that afflict us could stem from a fundamental condition, i.e., the weakening of the life-force, or to use the simple old term (predating the fashionable immune-system AIDSpeak) the "heart of health." In modern medicine each and every disease, disorder, and (more recently) "syndrome" is assigned its own peculiar pathological designation, its own peculiar symptomology, and its own peculiar etiology (cause). Thus particularized, each disease can have its own therapy, be it a vaccine, an antibiotic, an anodyne, a surgery, or whatever, and may even have its own medical specialist. One of the most hugely profitable industries on the planet has developed out of this distraction and brainwash that passes for modern healing.

The scam has gone so far now that researchers invent diseases and syndromes by definitional contrivance, even when no distinct and separate symptomology or etiology exists. (Example: so-called AIDS).

The vibrational responsiveness of living cells suggests a whole new medical panorama in which electric waves, both natural and man-made, exercise influences both healthful and malignant upon the body’s cellular oscillatory balance. Lakhovsky proposed that exposure to a blend of higher frequencies stimulate the cell’s life force, restoring vigor and balance.

Treatment with the multiple-wave oscillator mobilizes the body’s own self-healing reserves. Thus the range of diseases that can be treated is infinite. Degenerative conditions develop when the body’s self-healing reserves lose their power. Infections, cancers, inflammations, skeletal degeneration and organ dysfunctions then develop, but often such conditions can be reversed if these reserves are revived. Even fractures and cuts can be healed in a fraction of the normal time. Neural dysfunctions, from headaches to deafness to paralysis, can be normalized. The MWO has been used successfully to treat arthritis. Can any such a cure-all really exist? If there is a generalized life-force enhancer, then the answer is yes, and this may be it.

The violet ray conducts electro-energetic life-force enhancing properties into the body, like the MWO. Tesla himself used such a revivifying ray daily. While the MWO was never mass-produced, the violet-ray machine was actually commercially manufactured, and it became a fixture in many a doctor’s office and in many homes. Made available to the general public by a number of manufacturers in the 1920s and ’30s, one could mail-order the device from a Sears catalog. Not surprisingly, the advertising made sweeping cure-all claims. Eventually medicine organized to suppress this threatening alternative to its official line, which it labeled "quack," but for a time both MWO and violet-ray flourished, and to such a degree that it can't quite be stamped out. Like Tesla technology generally, this high-frequency electric healing technology still persists today world-wide and underground.

Borderland Sciences made a big contribution to the perpetuation of the technology with the publication of Tom Brown’s MWO Handbook in 1986, which is now in its fourth edition.

The old violet-ray machines employed small spark-gap oscillators or Tesla coils to generate the currents. The most common ray-tube electrode was in the form of a wand with a flared end, but ray-tubes were also available in a wide variety of blown-glass shapes to accommodate any contour of the anatomy and to fit into any orifice.

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When appropriate inexpensive violet-ray electrodes were difficult to come by, experimenters found an alternative in a contemporary off-beat light bulb called the AR-1. Originally made by General Electric (as a W1A), the AR-1 is a small argon bulb. Commercially it was intended to be an ultraviolet nightlight, but, connected to a Tesla coil, the bulb suffices as a therapeutic violet-ray beam emitter. Unfortunately, the AR-1 is presently out of manufacture, and the only inventory I know of, though it was in the thousands a few years ago, is presently depleted. That inventory was at the California lighting wholesaler Sunray (800-854-4487), who told me that the bulb had been continued in manufacture solely through the efforts of a Japanese gentleman who had fallen ill. Sunray says production may resume and admits to a continuing demand for the odd bulb, but when asked "by whom," Sunray said, "We don't know."