On the 149th birthday of Georges Lakhovsky

Georges Lakhovsky was a Russian inventor.

Georges Lakhovsky (Russian Георгий Лаховский; born 17 September 1870 in Ilya near Minsk; died 31 August 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) became known for a scientifically unrecognised hypothesis of wireless communication between cells by means of high frequency, and for inventing devices that were supposedly able to cure cancer. His research culminated in the invention of the multiple wave oscillator (MWO).

In 1911 Lakhovsky fell seriously ill and began to take an interest in medical questions. After the First World War, he contacted Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval, who had developed an electrical therapy method at the time. In 1923, at the Salpêtrière in Paris, Lakhovsky developed his own method of treating cancer in geraniums with high-frequency electromagnetic fields, based on d’Arsonval’s ideas and Tesla’s technology.

Around 1930 Lakhovsky invented a “multiple wave oscillator” (MWO), which he patented in France and the USA. In principle, it was a shortwave transmitter with a variable transmission frequency. Subsequently, he and practitioners of his technique used this device to treat several patients suffering from cancer. He reported spectacular successes and published them. He founded the company Colysa, which built the devices and sold them worldwide.