But, it never mattered to Hans and his friends. Magnets remained in the background until they appeared in a Sears catalog in the late 1890s, proclaiming foot inserts that cured sore feet. He created the Palmer School of Chiropractic Therapy. A good thing for him, for at the same time a Dr. Albert Abrams claimed that each organ was tuned to a particular elctromagnetic wavelength. That quieted things for almost 100 years.
Lets take a look at the science of magnets.
However, I will predict today, that even if magnets are proven worthless, their use will continue in large numbers. Although I never did learn to use my Boy Scout compass, a simple compass points toward magnetic North and has allowed many a different boy scout to lead his father out of the woods. Magnetic fields are formed by alternating North and South Poles. That small magnet on your refrigerator door is actually a strip of alternating positive and negative poles lined up next to each other. Michael Faraday, a 19 th century physicist demonstrated that a magnetic field must change in order to generate any electrical effect.