Magnetic healing is not new. Back about 350 B.C., Aristotle spoke of the therapeutic uses of magnets for healing. In 200 B.C., Galan, a Greek physician used magnets to bring about healing. In 1000 A.D., Persian physicians were using magnets to treat muscle spasms.

Paracelsus in the 1500s, advocated the use of magnetic therapy. Paracelsus also dabbled in homeopathy and astromedicine (determining healing methods using the placement of the stars at the time of the patient's birth - a form of astrology.)

Franz Mesmer "cured" his patients (usually women) by placing them in a magnetic bathtub filled with iron filings, Mesmerism (hypnotism) and what he referred to as a magnetic trance. Elisha Perkins, in the eighteen hundreds, cured patients using "tractors," three inch nail-shaped pieces of magnetic metal with which he touched the body. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, also had a belief that magnetic therapy was a feasible treatment for numerous conditions.

Dr. Albert Abrams was the inventor of radionics, the use of an electronic magnet to detect vitamin and mineral deficiencies in the body. The Scientific American in 1924, had this to say:

The American Medical Association (AMA) believed Abrams' methods and claims were ridiculous on the face of it, and it therefore wasn't worth the time and money to investigate it.

Other recent uses of magnetic therapy:

1. In 1982, JAMA (the Journal of the Medical Association) discussed the use of magnets with some success in the healing of "unhealable" fractures.
2. NASA has started adding magnets to space capsules to reduce symptoms of weakness in astronauts.
3. Since 1980, there is some evidence of curing cancer with magnets.

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