History
Baron Gustav von Pohl
In 1929 a German aristocrat – Baron Gustov Von Pohl who was an eminent dowser, made the extraordinary claim that cancer was caused by ‘energy currents’ that ran under the beds of the people that had died from the disease. To test his theory he persuaded the Mayor of the Bavarian town of Vilsbiburg to allow him to survey the town for such energies with his dowsing rod. The Mayor agreed and in January that year Baron Von Pohl accompanied by the Mayor and other officials measured his energy lines that ran through the streets and houses of the town. Baron Von Pohl’s energy lines were then compared with the towns record of houses where people had died from cancer during the last ten years, which showed a remarkable coincidence. The Baron was then asked by medical officials of other towns to make similar measurements, which gave like results. When measurements were taken in the City of Stetten, Dr. Harger, chairman of the city's medical scientific association, declared that all such ‘deadly earth currents’ ran beneath the beds of all the 5,348 people who had died from cancer during the last 21 years. This inspired some scientists and medical engineers to probe into the matter a little more deeply.

The war disrupted further research.
In the 1950’s the idea was again explored by Dr. Joseph Wurst, a German scientist and Jakob Stàngle, a German engineer and dowser. Dr Wurst conducted experiments in several German towns, in the rooms of cancer patients and found unusual amounts of gamma radiation in the houses he surveyed using a Geiger –counter. Stàngle, who had a very good reputation of locating water bearing fissures in crystalline rock developed a stintilisation counter more sensitive and accurate than a Geiger-counter and carried out a scientific survey in the French town of Moulins where a local physician, Dr, J Prichard claimed that cancer victims in the town dwelt above geological faults, where Stàngle again found unusual high gamma ray activity.
Whilst Würst and Stàngle thought that gamma radiation from fissures could be a significant cause of cancer more recent studies suggest that this is unlikely as gamma radiation tends to whiz straight through the body rather than causing direct hits on DNA. as would the more pernicious alpha radiation from Radon which is the more likely candidate.

Wolfgang Maes – Researcher
Has recently developed a supersensitive scintillation counter that is claimed to detect another kind of penetrating radiation from water baring fissures – Fast Neutrons. Maes claimed that certain water bearing fissures and fractures emit intense beams of these short lived high intensity velocity particles presumably released from local atoms by alpha particles from radon. [Maes, W ‘Radioaktivtat uber Wasseradern – Tiel 22’ (Wohnung und Gesundheit, No 56, 24-26, 1990) But like gamma rays these fast neutrons would shoot through our bodies causing minimal damage.

Another scintillation counter recently developed by Dr Mersmann can measure each particle group separately showing a spectroscopy of all nucleotides such as potassium 40 and thorium.