In 1986 after Dr. Nordenstrom had delivered his presentation at our 1986 Congress on Bio-Electric Medicine, he was very gracious to sign a copy of his book for our library. With great pomp and ceremony we stood before our electromagnetic section of our library and were prepared to place Dr. Nordenstrom’s book on the shelf. As he placed his book on the shelf he noticed a little book right next to his book. The book by J.H. Rae, M.D. was titled, “The Application of Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent.” In this book from 1877, Dr. Rae stated the following. “May 12th, 1869, upon examination of our patient we found a tumor about the size of a large hen’s egg, shaped like a bean just below and to the right of the nibble on the right breast…because there had already been two surgeries to remove the tumor by the eminent surgeon H. Marion Sims, the patient would not agree to a third surgery.”
“I proceeded at once to operate. I used the primary current and placed the positive electrode on the tumor and the negative electrode just two inches away on healthy tissue. The operation was twelve minutes. We commenced operations for several days afterward…On August 1, 1869, upon returning to New York for an examination by the patient’s physician, a group of physicians stated there were no signs of cancer and the patient was pronounced cured.”
I am sharing this for several reasons. I absolutely know for a fact that Dr. Nordenstrom had never seen or read this book. Wisdom is always available to be apprehended by all people. We can get technical and say that Discover Magazine’s pronouncement that Nordenstrom had made the biomedical discovery of the century was technically correct. But he was not the first to shrink cancer tumors using electricity. Dr. Rae had already been using electricity nearly 100 years before Nordenstrom.
I am sharing this for several reasons. I absolutely know for a fact that Dr. Nordenstrom had never seen or read this book. Wisdom is always available to be apprehended by all people. We can get technical and say that Discover Magazine’s pronouncement that Nordenstrom had made the biomedical discovery of the century was technically correct. But he was not the first to shrink cancer tumors using electricity. Dr. Rae had already been using electricity nearly 100 years before Nordenstrom.
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