New Found, Cannibal Germs, Hailed as Mighty Weapon in WAR on Disease (part 1)

March 7th, 2007


POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
October 1931
Vol. 119, No. 4
New Found, Cannibal Germs, Hailed as Mighty Weapon in WAR on Disease
By Clayton R. Slawter

Unknown to vast majority of his countrymen, an American scientist working quietly with test tubes, germs cultures, and microscopes in a mid-Western laboratory, has made a series of astounding discoveries that may give the medical profession control over a number of deadly diseases.

He is Dr. Arthur I. Kendall, professor of research backteriology in the Northwestern University Medical School at chicago. Made public in a few weeks ago, his findings have been hailed the world over as the greatest forward step in medical bacteriology since the days of the immortal Pasteur.

Kendall’s discoveries may be said to fall into two closely connected groups. First of all, he has succeeded in growing at will, from the blood of patients suffering from these diseases, the germs that cause influenza, measles, arthritis or inflammation of the joints, common colds, and endo carditis or inflammation of the heart lining. Hitherto all efforts of scientists to identify the germs of these familiar, often fatal maladies, and to grow them in the laboratory, had ended in failure.

This achievement obviously is the greatest importance to the future study of these diseases and eventually may lead to means of checking them. The reason other scientists were unable to isolate the germs was that the bacteria were invisible, even with the aid of the most powerful microscopes. For the first time in medical history, Kendall has made them visible.

Even more sensational and far-reaching is his discovery, growing out of these experiments, of a method, reminiscent of the magic wishing ring in the fairy tale, by which he arbitrarily can change the germs of many diseases from their invisible to their visible from and back again. This he has done with the germs of influenza, typhoid fever, infantile paralysis, yellow fever, pncumonia, scarlet fever, and the bacteria that are responsible for boild, abscesses, blood poisoning, and certain skin diseases.

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Movie New Eye of Microscope in War of Germs (part 4/final)

March 7th, 2007

How various rays affect the lives and activities of disease germs was another thing that Rife wanted to find out. One day he rigged up an electric discharge tube. An instrument of which the X-ray and cathode ray tubes of laboratories are special forms, and shot through it the comparatively high current of sixty four miliamperes. He obtained a strange ray that casts a greenish glow on the surrounding atmosphere, and of a sort beyond the usual range of X-rays. It penetrates air so easily that it may be detected at great distance from the tube. Rife devised a liquid screen of salt solution and acid to protect his hands against injury from the ray.

While X-rays had no effect of lockjaw ferms, and ultra-violet or invisible light rays merely halted their development, Rife discovered that the green ray would destroy the microbes. Now he is making a movie of that operation.

Rife has devised a magnetic compass so delicate that it can be used to study the electricity and magnetism in living germs. He suggest that if the electrical make-up of certain dangerous germs i learned, it may some day be possible to destroy them in the human body by applying small doses of electricity. In no way, however, Rife makes clear, does this idea uphold the claims of medical fakers that they can cure disease by applying electrical “vibrations” to the body of a patient.

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Movie New Eye of Microscope in War of Germs (part 3)

March 5th, 2007

Thus he has been able to record on one film the complete life story of he bookwork, from the hatching of the egg to the full development of the serpent like parasite. “I set the camera controls”, Rife explained, “and placed one egg of the bookworm in the center of the stage. When I returned, seventy-two hours later. I had a complete film record of the parasite.” The film takes only a few minutes to run off, but a research worker bending over his microscope would spend three days and nights, an all but impossible task, to see the same things happen.
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Movie New Eye of Microscope in War of Germs (part 2)

March 5th, 2007

When come the actores in these strange movies? Rife propagates and rears all the microbes he studies, I learned, in a incubating plant of his own design. Deadly germs, housed in jars, are nursed as carefully as the frailest child. Delicate thermostats control the warmth of ovens in which the germs are kept active, or the coolness of refrigerators in which they lie dormant. “If the electric current holds out”, Rife told me, “These microorganism will be alive a million years from today, without the interference of a human hand”.
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Movie New Eye of Microscope in War of Germs (part 1)

March 4th, 2007

Popular Science (June, 1931)
By H. H. DUNN

On a six-by-eight-foot screen in a darkened room appeared a spherical object. It resembled a gray indoor baseball, crisscrossed in all directions by fine threads of silk. Slowly and aimlessly it rotated.

“The spore of the bacterium that causes lockjaw”, came a voice from the loudspeaker of the motion picture apparatus. “Watch it!”

A dozen physicians and laboratory workers leaned forward. The sphere swelled. When it had become six inches or more in diameter on the screen, a dark line appeared across its middle. It parted. From it emerged a black bar, nearly as long as the diameter of the spore, spinning on its long axis—the cylinder-shaped germ of tetanus, or lockjaw. For what was probably the first time, a movie had shown the lockjaw spore hatching.

We were in the laboratory of R. R. Rife at San Diego, Calif. He is a pioneer in the art of making motion pictures of microscopically small. Once he took care of half a dozen automobiles for their wealthy owner, a widely known physician. Encouraged by the man of medicine, Rife becan building his own microscopes in a laboratory fitted up in a room over the garage. In this little room, he has today more than $50.000 worth of microscopes and cameras. Most of them he has built himself.
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