Oh, for goodness sake, Joe, that' s not TENS at all. Rife's story took plac place back in the 1920's or 1930's and was based on finding resonant frequencies. The fgunny thing is that the machinery was destroyed at the time, by fire IIRC; but prior to that there were waves of scientific groups coming to his place in San Diego and attesting to the dissipation of various conditions, including viral and carcinomens, using his machine. But the documentation was lost at the time, as was the prototype, and I don't think his theories as such were published and I am certain they were not peer-reviewed. The only part of the puzzle hard to refute with a supercilious shrug of superior knowledge, of course, is those flocks of doctorsd and scientist who were confirming the claims by inspection and so on. I suppose they could have been made up, though.

But ya wanna be careful about throwing out new ideas. Remember the sad tale of puerpal fever, which used to take the lives of large numbers of women in childbirth, and Doctor Semmelweiss, who cured it.
Saved hundreds of lives and families by simply requiring doctors to wash up when attending childbirth. emmelweis took charge of the maternity ward of Pest's St. Rochus Hospital from 1851 to 1857. His hand- and equipment-washing protocols reduced the mortality rate from puerperal fever to 0.85% there, and his ideas were soon accepted throughout Hungary.

He never saw the joy of his discovery, even though his practices became standard world-wide. He was run out of town by a disgruntled medical profession who didn't want to be told to change, and died a lunatic in an insane asylum from beatings sustained.

I suppose the doctors did not like being told they were causing childbed fever by not practicing hygeine -- hell, they still believed in balancing humours in those days.

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