Ever hear of the lida machine? THE LIDA MACHINE
Associated Press (Exact date not shown on copy but tests took place 1982/83) Loma Linda (Veterans Hospital research unit)
San Bernardino County
An old medical, Russian-made device that transmits pulses
of 40 MHz radio signal at pulse rates designed to match
relaxed and sleeping states originally.
The machine, known as the LIDA, is on loan to the Jerry L.
Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital through a medical exchange
program between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Hospital researchers have found in changes behavior in
animals.
"It looks as though instead of taking a valium when you want
to relax yourself it would be possible to achieve a similar
result, probably in a safer way, by the use of a radio field
that will relax you" said Dr. Ross Adey, chief of research
at the hospital. [Dr. Adey is now deceased.]
[Missing one line on the photocopy] … manual shows it
being used on a human in a clinical setting, Adey said.
The manual says it is a "distant pulse treating apparatus"
for psychological problems, including sleeplessness, hyper-
tension and neurotic disturbances.
The device has not been approved for use with humans in this
country, although the Russians have done so since at least
1960, Adey Said.
Low frequency radio waves simulate the brain's own electromagnetic
current and produce a trance-like state.
Adey said he put a cat in a box and turned on the LIDA.
"Within a matter of two or three minutes it is sitting there
very quietly … it stays almost as though it were transfixed"
he said.