Morris Fishbein, AMA Enemy of
American Health
by Bob Wallace
Dr. Morris Fishbein (1889-1976) originally studied to be a clown.
Realizing he could make more money as a doctor, he entered medical school
(where he failed anatomy), then barely graduated. He never treated a
patient in his life.
Why is he so important? Because he became head of the AMA, a position
that he used to enrich himself and crush legitimate therapies out of
existence. He appeared to be motivated solely by money and power.
As head of the AMA (and editor of the Journal of the American Medical
Association from 1924-1949), he decided which drugs could be sold to
the public based only how much advertising money he could extort from drug
manufacturers, whom he required to place expensive ads in the JAMA.
There were no drug-testing agencies, only Fishbein. It was irrelevant if
the drugs worked.
Fishbein was a shakedown artist. Yet, today, there is a Morris Fishbein
Center for the History of Science and Medicine at the University of
Chicago.
The AMA, a State-backed guild which today has a near-stranglehold on the
medical profession, was founded in 1847 merely as a social and scientific
organization. Its original purpose was totally appropriate. It was in their
private (and the public’s) interest for practitioners to get together to
trade knowledge, and, for all the outward seriousness of the organization,
to have some fun. The original purpose always seems to get lost, though.
Some members always want to use the State to reduce the supply of
practitioners (which increases income) and eliminate competition (which
also increases income, and, much more seriously, reduces innovation). This
happened with he AMA, which is why it is now a danger to the health of the
American people.
In 1900, while attending the annual AMA convention in St. Paul,
Minnesota, three doctors came up with the always-destructive but
all-too-human idea of using the AMA as a front, in order to form a closed
corporation for their financial benefit. A constitution, bylaws and a
charter were created which appeared to give the members of the AMA a say in
the activities of the corporation, whereas in reality the three directors
had complete control. These three formed smaller political machines in
every state, which they controlled through the main corporation.
In 1924, not surprisingly (perhaps inevitably) one of the directors
became involved in a scandal and had to resign. He appointed Fishbein to
take his place. Fishbein ultimately took control of the AMA, and by 1934
owned all of the stock. In his new position he was able to assume
dictatorial control of the state licensing boards and made it as difficult
as he could for any doctor who did not join. He, and the three doctors who
formed the corporation, were little more than extortionists, ones who made
millions by using the power of the State.
The AMA, which started out as a legitimate organization, rapidly became
crooked. And Fishbein was the main cause.
The worst of Fishbein’s sins was his destruction of Royal Rife.
Royal Raymond Rife
I don’t know if Royal Raymond Rife was legitimate or not. I believe the
evidence leans towards his being a once-in-a-century genius.
He was born in 1888 in Elkhorn, Nebraska, and died in 1971, at age 83.
He grew up with a passion for microscopes, microbiology, and electronics.
He was brilliant. There can be no doubt about that. He invented
technology still used today in optics, electronics, radiochemistry,
biochemistry, ballistics, and aviation. Some of his many inventions
included a heterodyning ultraviolet microscope, a microdissector, and a
micromanipulator. He studied at John Hopkins, received 14 major awards, and
was honored with an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg.
He worked for Zeiss Optics, the US government, and several private
employers, the most notable of them being Henry Timkin, who made millions
manufacturing roller bearings.
Most people have never heard of Rife.
By 1920, Rife had built the world’s first microscope that was strong
enough for the him to see a virus (he sometimes had to painfully adjust his
microscope for up to 24 hours to get the specimen into focus). By 1932,
after 12 years and five microscopes, he perfected his technology and had
constructed the largest and most powerful of them, which he called his
"Universal Microscope." It had almost 6,000 different parts and
could magnify objects 61,000 times their normal size. With this
two-foot-tall, 200-pound microscope, Rife became the first to see a live
virus, and until recently, his microscope was the only one which could do
this.
Modern electron microscopes, although more powerful than Rife’s
invention, instantly kill the viruses they are focused upon. Rife’s
microscope left the viruses alive, so they could be studied.
Rife’s genius was first introduced to the public in the San Diego
Union newspaper in 1929, and was followed by an article in Popular
Science in 1931. Articles describing his great scientific breakthroughs
appeared in the established scientific press in for the first time in late
1931 in Science magazine, as well as California and Western
Medicine.
In 1944, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, published a
detailed article about Rife in their national journal, with his microscope
the focus of it. But what was revealed to their readers was not only Rife’s
microscope, but how he was able to destroy disease-causing pathogens.
As far back as 1920, Rife had identified a virus that he believed caused
cancer. He called it the "BX virus." He made over 20,000
unsuccessful attempts to transform normal cells into tumor cells. He failed
until he irradiated the virus, caught it in a porcelain filter, and
injected in into lab animals. Using this technique, he created 400 tumors
in a row.
He began subjecting this virus to different radio frequencies to see if
it was affected by them. He discovered what he called the "Mortal
Oscillatory Rate" (MOR) of the virus. He successfully cured cancer in
his 400 experimental animals before he decided to run tests on humans.
What Rife was doing was using resonance to kill the virus.
Everything vibrates at different frequencies. If the resonance is correct,
it can be used to shatter, just as a singer can use it to break a
wineglass. By finding the proper resonance, Rife was able to shatter the
virus. This is why he called it the Mortal Oscillatory Rate.
Rife claims he also discovered the frequencies which destroyed herpes,
polio, spinal meningitis, tetanus, influenza, and many other dangerous,
disease-causing organisms. All told, there were over 50 infectious diseases
that he apparently discovered cures for.
How did Rife do this? He painstakingly obtained the MORS by tuning the
dial of the frequency generator while observing the sample pathogen under
his microscope. When a frequency was discovered that destroyed a particular
microorganism, its dial position was marked. The actual frequencies were
determined later after his experiments. What he did, he apparently did
intuitively and unwittingly, and it is doubtful he completely understood
the theoretical method he utilized. For one thing, there was at that time
no theory to explain what he was doing. (In doing research for this
article, I have come to the conclusion that Rife was so far advanced over
currently available theories that he could not
explain what he was doing.)
In the summer of 1934, one of Rife’s close friends, Dr. Milbank Johnson,
along with the University of Southern California, appointed a Special
Medical Research Committee to bring 16 terminally cancer patients from
Pasadena County Hospital to Rife’s San Diego Laboratory and clinic for
treatment. The team included doctors and pathologists assigned to examine
the patients – if they were still alive – after 90 days.
Some of the other scientists and doctors Rife worked with were: E.C.
Rosenow, Sr. (longtime Chief of Bacteriology, Mayo Clinic); Arthur Kendall
(Director, Northwestern Medical School); Dr. George Dock; Alvin Foord
(pathologist); Rufus Klein-Schmidt (President of USC); R.T. Hamer
(Superintendent, Paradise Valley Sanitarium); Whalen Morrison (Chief
Surgeon, Santa Fe Railway); George Fischer (Childrens Hospital, N.Y.);
Edward Kopps (Metabolic Clinic, La Jolla); Karl Meyer (Hooper Foundation,
S.F.); and M. Zite (Chicago University).
At first, the patients were given three minutes of the appropriate
frequency every day. The treatment consisted of the patients standing next
to one of Rife’s generators, which irradiated them. It was much the same as
standing in front of a large fluorescent light. The researchers soon
learned this was too much of the treatment. Suspecting the human body
needed more time to dispose of the dead toxins, they reduced the time to
three minutes every third day.
After the 90 days of treatment, the committee concluded that 14 of the
patients had been completely cured. After the treatment was adjusted, the
remaining two of the patients responded within the next four weeks. The
total recovery rate using Rife’s technology was 100%. The treatment was
painless, and the side effects, minimal, if any. Except for building the
generators, the total cost was a little electricity (today, the cost of
treating a cancer patient averages $300,000 were person. That’s a lot of
money, and the cancer industry is big business.)
Rife wrote in 1953, "Sixteen cases were treated at the clinic for
many types of malignancy. After three months, 14 of these so-called
hopeless cases were signed off as clinically cured by the staff of five
medical doctors and Dr. Alvin G. Foord, M.D., pathologist for the
group."
In 1937 Rife and some colleagues established a company called Beam Ray.
They manufactured fourteen of Rife’s "frequency instruments." Dr.
James Couche, who was present at the clinic, used one of Rife’s machines
with great success for 22 years, long after the AMA had banned it.
Then, to Rife’s, and the nation’s great misfortune, Fishbein heard about
Rife’s frequency machine.
Fishbein sent an attorney to make a token attempt to buy out Rife. Rife
refused. Although no one knows the exact terms of the offer, it was probably
similar to the one Fishbein made to Harry Hoxsey for his herbal cancer
remedy (which Fishbein, in court, had to admit worked on skin cancer):
Fishbein and his associates would receive all profits for nine years and
Hoxey would receive nothing. Then, if they were satisfied that it worked,
Hoxsey would begin to receive 10% of the profits. When Hoxsey refused,
Fishbein used his political connections to have Hoxsey arrested 125 times
in a period of 16 months. The charges (based on practicing without a license)
were always thrown out of court, but Fishbein harassed Hoxsey for 25 years.
The only good thing that came out of it is that the scandal forced Fishbein
to resign.
Fishbein then offered Phil Hoyland, an investor in Beam Ray and an
electrical engineer who had helped build the frequency instruments, legal
assistance in an attempt to steal the company from Rife and the other
investors. A lawsuit ensued.
The trial of 1939 put an end to the proper scientific investigation of
Rife’s frequency machine. Rife, who was not as resilient as Hoxsey, became
unglued. Unable to cope with the savage and unfair attacks in court, he
crumbled, turned to alcohol, and became an alcoholic. This, even though he
won the case. Unfortunately, the legal bills bankrupted Beam Ray, and it
closed down. Fishbein used his power within the AMA to halt any further
investigation of Rife’s work.
In 1950 Rife joined up with John Crane, who was an electrical engineer.
They worked together for ten years, building more advanced frequency machines.
But in 1960 the AMA closed them down. Crane was imprisoned for three years
and one month, even though fourteen patients testified as to the
effectiveness of the machine (the forewoman of the jury was an AMA doctor).
Rife died in 1971, from a combination of alcohol and Valium. He had spend
the last one-third of his life as an alcoholic.
What happened to all of those who had supported Rife? By 1939 most of
them were denying they ever knew him, even though 44 of them had honored
Rife on November 20, 1939 with a banquet billed as "The End to All
Diseases" at Dr. Milbank’s Pasadena estate.
Arthur Kendall, who worked with Rife on the cancer virus, accepted
almost a quarter of a million dollars to suddenly "retire" in
Mexico. This was a huge amount of money during the Depression. Dr. George
Dock was silenced with an enormous grant, along with the highest honors the
AMA could bestow. Everyone except Dr. Couche and Dr. Milbank Johnson gave up
Rife’s work and went back to prescribing drugs. Johnson died in 1944.
The medical journals, supported almost entirely by drug company
advertising revenues and controlled by the AMA, refused to publish any
paper by anyone on Rife’s therapy. Generations of medical students
graduated without hearing of Rife’s breakthroughs in medicine.
And what happened to Rife’s decades of meticulous evidence of his work,
including film and stop-motion photographs? Parts of his instruments,
photographs, film, and written records were stolen from his lab. No one
knows who was behind it. No one was never caught.
Rife’s documentation for the cancer clinic was lost when he lent them to
Dr. Arthur Yale a few years later. Barry Lynes, who reintroduced Rife’s
work to the public in 1986, in his book The
Cancer Cure that Worked, wrote, "Documents show the clinic
existed and succeeded in curing cancer. And doctors who continued treating
seriously ill people with success because of what the frequency instrument
accomplished in 1934 tell the real story, as do signed reports from cured
cancer patients in later years."
While Rife attempted to reproduce his missing data, his virus
microscopes were vandalized. Pieces of his Universal Microscope were
stolen. Earlier, arson had destroyed the multi-million dollar Burnett Lab
in New Jersey, just as the scientists there were preparing to announce
confirmation of Rife’s work. But the last blow came later, when police
illegally confiscated the remainder of Rife’s 50 years of research.
Fortunately, his death was not the end of his electronic therapy. A few
humanitarian doctors and engineers attempted to reconstruct his frequency
machines and keep his work alive.
But do these modern machines work? I don’t know. Modern reseachers are
trying to replicate the life’s work of what may been one of the greatest
geniuses in history.
If you’ll look at the reviews of Lynes’ book at Amazon.com., there are
people who swear by Rife’s machines. A doctor I know (who lives outside the
US and wishes to remain anonymous) told me, "I have a feeling the Rife
machines that are now available to us do not have the correct
frequencies...the machines I’ve experienced have limited settings and transmit
a general range of frequencies." But she uses something similar,
specifically the LISTEN and the much more advanced BEST machines, invented
by James Clark.
She told me several of her case histories, one of which I will reproduce
here: "[I was treating] a nine-weeks-old baby that was blue and
dying...doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with her. I found Ross River
fever (mosquito transmitted) and the baby began to respond within two hours
of giving her the frequencies, and went on to make a full recovery, just
after one treatment. The parents did demand a blood test for the baby to
confirm the Ross River virus – which it was! There was nothing the doctors
could have done about it. I used to think that somehow the electromagnetic
frequency gave the body the right information to deal with the virus. We
now know how this works – due to Sharry Edwards, (another practitioner in
the States I’ve studied with, who uses low-frequency sound for healing).
She has access to great lab equipment, and last year applied the
frequencies representing various parasite, bacteria and viruses to blood
containing these pathogens. Under a special high-powered microscope, she
observed that the frequency shattered the "mask" – the protein
DNA that the pathogen would cloak itself with – and expose the invader to
the immune system, would would immediately attack and destroy."
This is essentially what Rife discovered over 80 years ago. We are 80
years behind where we should be, because of one despicable man, Morris
Fishbein, who used the State to halt the advance of medicine, and to line
his own pockets.
The LISTEN and BEST machines are legal in the US...but not totally. Said
this doctor:
"Practitioners in the States do not use the ‘imprinting’ facility
of the machines – that is, broadcasting the frequency. Since this
broadcasting is not permitted by your laws, the device is added to the
machine when we buy them."
In other words, it is illegal in the US to use the machines to attempt
to cure disease. The proper parts aren’t even on the machine. It’s illegal
for a doctor to even suggest such a cure is possible.
There are other instruments (and other inventors) who, past and present,
have discovered the same thing Rife did. Gaston Naessons, Hulda Clark and
Antoine Priore have invented similar instruments. All suffered persecution
at the hands of the State. Are they legitimate? All I can say is that they
had an enormous amount of support from their patients.
What would have happened if Rife had suceeded, and Fishbein had failed?
If what Rife was doing actually worked, there would be a lot of people who
would have not died of cancer. A lot of the medical profession would have
ceased to exist. It certainly didn’t take a doctor to operate Rife’s
machines.
Scientists and researches could have devoted more time and money to
things we are far behind on, like growing organs and limbs. The hundreds of
billions of dollars that has flowed to the unholy alliance of the AMA, FDA,
drug industry and the State, would have never been.
The cure for these problems? Remove the State backing from the AMA and
FDA, and unleash the power and creatively of the free market. Many people
have been brainwashed into thinking the State protects them. The truth is
the exact opposite.
February 2, 2002
Bob Wallace [send him mail],
a former newspaper reporter and editor, and an incurable lover of puns,
lives in St. Louis.
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