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12 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. May 23, 1984 Magnetic machine fit for horses and humans It all started with an accident in the fall of 1982 at Kawartha Downs in Peterborough. Bruce Cummings had. his fists full of reins during a heart-stopping race to the finish line when his horse choked and the sulky collapsed on the track with Bruce on it. "My foot swelled up so bad and so black they couldn't do anything for me", he says, referring to the medics at the racetrack. He stopped in at a friend's on the way to his Prince Albert home, and by that time, the pain in his swollen foot was intense, the muscles and tendons inflamed. His friend owned a Masor, a mag- netic biological stim- ulation device used for treating horses, and suggested he try it on on Bruce. '"'After using it on me for 20 minutes 1 felt no better, but the next morning 1 walked with- out crutches'. From then on, he was hooked on the benefits both he and his animals could reap from using the machine, a painless way of treating every- thing from arthritis to tennis elbow, sprains, rheumatism, head- aches, migraines and hearing problems. He uses it on the 20 or so horses in his barn for tendonitis and other racing-induced injuries and even uses it as a tranquilizer instead of drugs. The device itself looks fairly unremarkable, sort of like a generator with a couple green and red lights on it. A hefty black square of plastic with a handle on it, the head, is attached to the Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Climbers body with a coil and the whole thing is plugged into any wall socket. When the device is switched on (either in treatment or strengthen mode), the head sends out a strong, highly concentrated unipolar magnetic field, directed to the area in the body requiring attention. Although magnetism has been known for some 2500 years, it wasn't until the 17th century that a physician by the name of Mesmer used magnetism to some advantage in the treatment of his pati- ents. At the time, it was considered quackery. He was dishonoured and thrown out of the med- ical profession. Things haven't chang- ed much for those who swear by the healing powers of the magnetic stimulator. Bruce Cummings is aware that the device is frowned upon by most members of the medical comm- unity. Still, Bruce can't dis- prove the effect the device has had on his horses, his families, friends and people he hardly knows who have come to him in order to use his machine. Since he bought a Masor he's had horses and people lined up to be treated with magnetic power. He's had as many as seven people in his living room at a time, waiting to see if the device can relieve the pain of a frozen shoulder or dissipate the calcium deposits in their hands. He recalls the story of one friend, a fellow farmer who was forced by arthritis to do less and less around the farm. As the calcium deposits built up in his -- a Shade & Ornamental Trees Evergreens - Flowering Shrubs - etc. - Peat Moss - - Insecticides - - Fertilizer - | 5 Miles East of Port Perry - tay TA At Wert Line - Pen a hy 1 hed an hands, Bruce's friend took more and more pills trying to alleviate the pain, until he worr- ied about getting hooked uh the drugs. When he couldn't stand it any longer, Bruce suggested he try the Masor device, but only on the condition that he stop taking painkillers (so he would. know for sure that it was the Masor doing the healing, not the drugs). He did, and began taking treatments. "For a guy who was so sore, it was really great. His wrist had locked and yet now I don't think you can tell what hand the calcium was on, It's completely gone," he says. "It's just strictly magnetic power, working on the magnetic power the human body has in it". Bruce doesn't charge people for the treat- ments -- only their horses. For $20 a treat- ment he'll turn the Masor on a horse's bowed tendon, swollen knee or broken hoof, just so the machine will pay for itself (it's worth nearly $4,000) but he can't and won't charge a man or woman. He figures he's had a couple hundred people walk through his door looking for a treatment and he claims he's never had anybody not show some improve- ment. '""My own honest opin- ion is that this is the greatest breakthrough for people with soreness problems, for arthritis, especially for older people, and of course, for animals," he says. "One of the greatest assets of owning a Masor is that the legs on my colts are kept tight and sound, and I haven't got a colt in my barn with so much as a pimple'. And what's more, it's completely painléss and non-addictive. "It can't hurt, that's the greatest thing about it. I'm not afraid to set it on my head!"". Although he is a distributor of the machine and will sell one to anyone who has $3,800 to shell out, he doesn't expect to get rich selling Masors. "There isn't enough money in it," he says. 'That isn't the reason I'm selling these mach- ines and that's not the reason I'm talking to you'. He hag called the Port Perry Star office after reading about an Oshawa man, Tom Cog- | hill, who tours various schools throughout the region talking about the dangers of drug abuse. A former abuser him- self, Tom suffers from constant back and head pains. Bruce read the article and immediately decid- ed to offer the Masor's help, confident the device would alleviate some of Tom's pain. '""A guy like that, helping kids, doing some good, he doesn't deserve all that pain', he said over the tel- ephone. "Maybe this thing can help him"'. He'll be getting in touch with Tom as soon as he can. SCUGOG Glass & Mirror ) make beautiful gifts for ... 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