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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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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Weighing germs and timing the speed of their movement are some of Rife’s feats in microscope land. He showed me a quartz slide bearing several hundred typhus germs, invisible to the eye, and then slipped it beneath the microscope. I peered into the eyepiece and saw a score of small black objects which appeased about an eighth of an inch long. Waving wildly from each were from one to eight black filaments. Hither and yon they dashed so rapidly that the eye could hardly follow them.

“If a man could move proprotionately fast, he could travel on his own feet more than 600 miles an hour”, Rife said. He timed them by etching measured lines on the slide and nothing how many lines they crossed in a fixed time.

“We have weighted them on extremely delicate balances”, Rife added. “The weight of these disease germs avarages one-184-trillionth part of an ounce”

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An electric light of 2,000 candlepowers falls upo the center of this microscopic movie studio—a tiny spot on the thin slab of the transparent quartz that bears the germs. Above it, sixteen of the finest quartz lenses obtainable, immersed in glycerin, magnify the dimensions of each germ 12,000 times. Designed by Rife himself, this apparatus is one of the most powerful microscopes in the world; its magnification compares with the 2,000-diameter enlargement of microscopes commonly used in research laboratories and in medical examinations.

The small camera at the observation end of the microscope starts. Into this camera Rife has built a twenty-one-jewel high grade watch movement that automatically makes pictures at any desired interval from the usual sixteen or eighteen a second to one every five hours.

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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.

For ten years he has worked to capture in motion pictures what the eye sees through the most powerful microscopes. He has succeeded and his work has won recognition from the medical profession. Now doctors may sit at ease in comfortable chairs and watch bacteria in their native surroundings on a motion picture screen. There they may compare their own observations of disease germs taken from patients with the life history of these microbes, preserved on motion picture film. It is estimated that the time required to diagnose certain diseases may be cut from days to hours by the use of the films.

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