In order to understand the forces emanating from animal and vegetable matter it immediately becomes necessary to understand something of the relation connecting physiology and physics.
This is well explained by Dr. George Crile in his book entitled The Bipolar Theory of Living Processes, which he published in 1926 after making exhaustive studies in Europe His conclusions were as follows:.
1. That electricity is a constant phenomenon of living processes. This has long been known.
2. That the application of electricity to the muscles or glands, or to their nerve supply, will cause them to perform their natural functions. This is a basic fact which is universally accepted by physiologists.
3. That the materials of which animals are constructed are specifically adapted to electrical processes.
4. That in structure and function the unit cells which drive the organism not only are adapted to fabricate, to store, and to discharge electricity, but this is true also of the protoplasm itself. Certain generally accepted facts and certain new evidence which tend to establish this requirement I will illustrate with lantern views.
5.That the organism as a while is a bipolar electric mechanism bearing the pattern of the unit cells and that the unit cells are constructed on the pattern of the atom. Experimental data which tends to support this requirement will be offered.
6. That the normal and the pathological phenomena of man and animals can be interpreted in electrical terms.
The unit of structure and of function of the animal organism is the cell. In fact, an animal may be regarded as a disperse system of cell suspensions. It is primarily essential, therefore, to consider the operation of the cell as a bipolar unit.
The nucleus of the cell is comparatively acid, the cytoplasm is comparatively alkaline; the nucleus and the cytoplasm are separated by a semi-permeable film of very low conductivity. These characteristics of the cell indicate a difference in electric potential between the nucleus and the cytoplasm.
We may, therefore, consider the cell as a bipolar mechanism, the nucleus being the positive element, the cytoplasm the negative element.
STEREOPTICAN SLIDE NO.1:.
This slide is a graphic illustration of the human or vegetables, cells as understood by the physicist. It shows the positive and negative elements as provided by the cytoplasm and nucleus separated by the membranes, which are of lower conductivity.
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The second illustration shows Criles photograph of a brain cell, magnified 6000 diameters, with a small reproduction pen and ink sketch showing the same brain cell with the nucleus or positive element extending into an elongated process with its axis-cylinder representing electric wiring of an ordinary wet cell circuit. The insulation of the axis-cylinder being the nuclear membrane and protoplasmic membrane, both of which are of lower conductivity than the substances they enclose.
It is well known to all physiologists that all cells, whether vegetable or animal, carry on a respiratory process involving the interchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Crile has made experiments to prove that the potential of living cells. changes with the variation of oxygen consumption. Thus cells breathe, and with increased energy is increased electrical potential.
Therefore, the conclusion is:.
First: Cells breathe, inhaling oxygen, exhaling carbon. dioxide.
Second Oxidation determines potential, and variation.
in oxidation causes variation in potential.
Third The nucleus is acid and positive in reaction.
Fourth Protoplasm is alkaline and negative in reaction.
Fifth Cell and nucleus walls being lower conductivity.
than the substances they enclose.
Vegetable and animal homoeopathic remedies, being composed of cells and thus manifesting bipolar energy, must of necessity emanate energy similar to those of the body for which they are used as remedial agents.
Mineral Homoeopathic potencies being positive or negative in action must be so finely divided (homoeopathic potentization) that the energy emanating from the minerals will be of like potential to the bodies for which they are used as remedial agents.
Dr. William Boyd in his most enlightening article, entitled Hahnemann in the Light of Homoeopathic Research, published in the journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy March 1935, made the following statements:.
The research along clinical lines with the Emanometer has led to information of great interest, and to evidence for a new theory of action of these homoeopathic potencies as redistributing factors in a biophysical energy balance. These findings have been published at intervals, and I hope in 1936 to give some resume of them. Among these findings the weight of evidence suggests some of the following points:.
(1) That an effect or radiation can be detected as preceding from, or related to, every object, animal, vegetable or mineral, so far as tested, which is not an earthed conductor,.
(2) That all drugs register this effect; ordinary crude drugs with the least intensity, colloids with greater, and homoeopathic drugs with the greatest of all.
(3) That living objects register with greater intensity than inanimate substances, with the exception of potentized substances.
(4) That disease is therefore accompanied by, or is due to, a disturbance of the positive and negative balance, and curative treatment should restore the balance.
(5) That this disturbance of balance may take place long before there is any evidence of pathologic change.
(6) That all methods of treatment which can provide the necessary energy for restoration of this balance will benefit the patient, but for this to occur, apart from the inherent tendency of the patient to regain balance, it is necessary for there to be a specific selective relation between the energy supplied and the patient.
Dr.George R. Henning, of Dell, Arkansas, after practicing in a malarial district for over forty years, comes to the following conclusions.
I now regard malaria as a virulent poison, the result of vegetable matter, grown in the soil, peculiar to certain localities, being decomposed by the suns rays, resulting in a change of the electrically energized atoms, entering into the make-up of each species of its kind, producing the electrical energy peculiar to this poison which enters the blood via the organs of respiration, in interrupted volumes, which determine the periodicity and intensity of the attack, in proportion to the number of volumes, and amount of poison in each.
The homoeopathic profession has recognized for years that some remedies have a predilection for the right side of the body (Lyc., Calc., Chel.), while others affect mostly the left side (Lach., Phos., Stann). This is due to the fact discovered by Hahnemann many years ago that one side of the body is electro- positive, while the other is electro-negative.
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This slide is a reproduction taken from an article entitled The Physical Nature of Death, presented before the American Philosophical society by George W. George W. Crile;e, M.D., Marie Telkes., Ph. D., and Amy L. Rowland, M.A., which shows the effect of insomnia on the potential for brains of rabbits.
This illustration shows the diminished response to adrenalin in the insomnia rabbit. It further illustrates the change in electric potential, thus proving again that in animal, plant, and fruit life potential, exists during life and disappears at death. That potential varies in insomnia and anaesthesia.
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This slide is taken from the same article as Slide No.3 and illustrates the logarithmic curve, showing the effect of various concentrations of sodium chloride on the potential of a normal apple.
STEREOPTICAN SLIDE NO.5.
This slide is also taken from the same article, showing how chloroform affects the potential difference in apples again an initial rise followed by a steady drop to Zero.
STEREOPTICAN SLIDE NO.6.
This is an illustration of the slicing of 50 apples which are connected in series by electro-positive and negative elements of zinc and copper poles, the resultant current being sufficient to operate a motor of one volt.
In this connection, Dr. Burnett Cohen, of Johns Hopkins, made the statement that two drams of bacteria will produce 1/100,000 of an ampere a minute through three hundred ohms of resistance.
STEREOPTICAN SLIDE NO.7:.
This slide is an illustration of Criles article on The Physical Nature of death, showing the effect on the potential of amoeba of direct and of counter electric charges in millivolts. The potential of the amoeba averaged ten millivolts which, when charged against the current of the amoeba, showed a dropping to minus twenty, but when the charge was with the amoeba, the amoeba, the potential, gradually arose to thirty eight plus.
STEREOPTICAN SLIDE NO.8:.
Here is shown the potential difference in millivolts of a heated apple. As the apple was heated, oxygen consumption increased the potential to over 350 millivolts, gradually reducing as the heat produced destruction and finally death.
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This slide shows electrical potential of the hydrogen atom, being composed of one positive and one negative element. The carbon atom is composed of six negative, one positive.
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