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Smithsonian
Annual Report 1944
Pages 193-220:
In other words,
the human body itself is chemical in nature, being comprised of many chemical
elements which provide the media upon which the wealth of bacteria normally
present in the human body feed. The bacteria are able to reproduce. They,
too, are composed of chemicals. Therefor, if the media upon which they
feed, in this instance the chemicals or some portion of the chemicals of
the human body, become changed from the normal, it stands to reason that
these same bacteria, or at least certain numbers of them, will also undergo
a change chemically since they are now feeding upon media which are not
normal to them, perhaps being supplied with too much or too little of what
they need to maintain normal existence. They change, passing usually through
several stages of growth, emerging finally as some entirely new entity
- as different morphologically as are the caterpillar and the butterfly
(to use an illustration given to us). The majority of the viruses have
been definitely revealed as living organisms, foreign organisms it is true,
but which once were normal inhabitants of the human body - living entities
of a chemical nature or composition.
Under the universal
microscope disease organisms such as those of tuberculosis, cancer, sarcoma,
streptococcus, typhoid, staphylococcus, leprosy, hoof and mouth disease,
and others may be observed to succumb when exposed to certain lethal frequencies,
coordinated with the particular frequencies peculiar to each individual
organism, and directed upon them by rays covering a wide range of waves.
By means of a camera attachment and a motion-picture camera not built into
the instrument, many "still" micrographs as well as hundreds of feet of
motion picture film bear witness to the complete life cycles of numerous
organisms. It should be emphasized, perhaps, that invariably the same organisms
refract the same colors when stained by means of the monochromatic beam
of illumination on the universal microscope, regardless of the media upon
which they are grown. The virus of Bacillus typhosus is always turquoise-blue,
the Bacillus coli always mahogany colored, the Mycobacterium leprae always
a ruby shade, the filter passing form or virus of tuberculosis always an
emerald green, the virus of cancer always a purplish-red, and so on. Thus,
with the aid of this microscope, it is possible to reveal the typhoid organism,
for instance, in the blood of a suspected typhoid patient 4 and 5 days
before a Widal is positive. When it is desired to observe the flagella
of the typhoid organism, Hg salts are used as the medium to see at a magnification
of 10,000 diameters.
In the light
of the amazing results obtainable with this universal microscope and its
smaller brother scopes, there can be no doubt of the ability of these instruments
to actually reveal any and all micro-organisms according to their individual
structure and chemical constituents.
With the aid
of its new eyes - the new microscopes, all of which are continually being
improved - science has at last penetrated beyond the boundary of accepted
theory and into the world of the viruses with the result that we can look
forward to discovering new treatments and methods of combating the deadly
organisms - for science does not rest.
To Dr. Karl
K. Darrow, Dr. John A. Kolmer, Dr. William P. Lang, Dr. L. Marton, Dr.
J.H. Renner, Dr. Royal R. Rife, Dr. Edward C. Rosenow, Dr. Arthur W. Yale,
and Dr. V.K. Zworykin, we wish to express our appreciation for the help
and information so kindly given us and to express our gratitude, also,
for the interest shown in this effort of bringing to the attention of more
of the medical profession the possibilities offered by the new microscopes. |
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