Ever since its discovery, electricity has been used for therapeutic purposes. Electrostatic charges developed by stroking an amber rod with a silk cloth were experimented with as far back as the 16th century. Exactly how these charges of electrical energy could effect the body was unknown until recent times. Now we know that all such charges have bioactive potential.
Probably the first notable experiments were conducted by Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1733-1815). These involved stroking the body with magnets, and other means of delivering gause to the body. He did this to good effect and became famous, treating lords, nobles and monarchs. Since science had not as yet progressed to the point of any theory as to how this might work, Mesmer's experiments were largely unrepeatable. He was declared a fraud by Benjamin Franklin.
The fascination of experimenters with the fundamental principals of electro-medicine went unabated. By 1890, an electro-medical society was founded in the US. Literally hundreds of electrical devices were available to the public. These were of every convievable shape and configuration. All with differing theories, and many with totally ridiculous claims.
Around the beginning of the 20th century, Albert Abrams did further experiments, developing machines to do the work, but again, the inadequacies of good scientific theory, led to unexplained failures, and Abrams too was eventually discredited.
When Royal Rife came along, transducer technology was fairly well developed. Remarkable effects were being observed, and devices of this type enjoyed unprecedented successes. But still, there was not enough scientific background to make results predictable. By 1920, the electric chair was put in use in prisons. One of the major pieces to the puzzle was discovered when about 1928, Rife found that microorganisms are suseptable to resonant frequency. At first, Rife was touted as the savior of humanity. But in 1931, Universal Pictures produced the motion picture Frankenstein, which effectively demonized electro-medicine in all its forms. Rife was forced to conceal and to down play his use of the transducer. Since virtually nothing of Rife's hardware was patentable, interest in it soon waned and fell into disrepute.
One of the most popular parts of the Rife story involves intrigue, betrayals, and corruption. There is very little evidense of this, but the speculation is to the effect that the AMA destroyed Rife and his work, in much the same way as they destroyed Harry Hoxey. At the time Morris Fishbein owned all of the AMA stock, according to some reports. The evidence we have seen seems to indicate that Rife and his supporters mysteriously began to do things that don't make any sense. They spent a lot of time and energy trying to recover documents and equipment they had lent to doctors and scientists. They wrote many angry letters. They got into trouble. They were even arrested. Rife ended an alcoholic, and this was supposed to be his cause of death.
We believe that exposure to the Rife RAY contributed to his deterioration, and the deterioration of the behavior of most of his close friends and supporters. These devices produced microwave energy, which kills brain cells and other bodily tissue very easily. John Crane tried to make corrections to common beliefs about the therapy after Rife's death, but he too had been fried. He behaved erradically, and was difficult to interview when our people met with him in 1986.
In 1971, the first Rife machine to be approved was called the TENS machine. (Transcutaneous Electrical Neural Stimulator) There are those who do not think it was a coincidence that this was the very year that Rife passed away, in part because the company that developed it was located in La Jolla, not 15 miles from where Rife had lived.
From 1950, Rife had a close associate by the name of John Crane. Crane built instruments for Rife and was partnered with him until his death. After which, Crane attempted in earnest to build modern Rife instruments, and to debunk some of the wild speculation about the circumstances of Rife's demise. Crane produced the first full function, transistorized frequency instruments, and the first to be digitally controlled. But Crane did not perform adequate tests. He assumed that transistors would be better, and that digital would be more accurate. He was wrong. Crane's attempts were failures, producing only about 20 percent of the effects expected. Many charlatans copied Crane, and for this reason, accused Crane of lying about the frequencies used in the therapy.
By the time Wright Laboratories was inducted into this story, the Rife technique was at an all time low. John Crane had been arrested for mail fraud. The few makers who stubbornly remained, Bob Beck, Don Tunney, and a handful of others, were making feeble machines, barely able to function at all, and persecution of users by federal authorities in plain violation of the US Constitution, was rampant.
Since paranoia was common among promoters, and transactions were typically conducted in secret by operatives in parking lots from the trunk of a car, John Wright did not have access to the people who used the machines he made. There was reason to fear. Fear that users would not be successful without any customer support of any kind. Wright Labs began to produce a book called THE FREQUENCY INSTRUMENT, which was a compilation of applications used by Rife and Crane for many years. Wright Labs also increased the power and accuracy of their instruments to such a degree that it would be very difficult for users to be unsuccessful if they used them with any regularity.
The Original Wright Labs Model B-2
Although the first Wright Labs instruments were not mass producable, later models were. Now the machines are very refined and have simple controls. Basic procedures established by JWLABS are now widely imitated.
