Hite's Engineering Analysis of the Hieronymus Patent and Pathoclast

Method

Circuit reconstruction and electrical analysis of the patented Hieronymus design and Pathoclast hardware: signal tracing, identification of oscillation sources, and assessment of which controls participate in any functional circuit.

Findings

• The device produces a 60 Hz-pulsed RF artifact via an unshielded grid wire driving the amplifier into oscillation — not a measurement of any novel emanation.
• The 'stick plate' sensation is reproducible as a tactile effect of low-power RF on the plate; prominent tuning dials were not functionally connected, with readout shifts tracing to operator body capacitance (ideomotor).
• The patent's wording obscures the design so a working detector cannot be reproduced from it — interpreted by Hite as deliberate.
• Therapy terminals delivered up to 22 VAC at 60 Hz — kept just under accepted lethal thresholds by a designer who, as a power-utility veteran, knew them precisely.