A Ray of Death, or the Death of Ray?

The Rife Machine

Royal Raymond Rife
1888 - 1971

On the recordRoyal Raymond Rife

1913 Awarded an honorary PhD from University of Heidelsberg,
Germany.
1913 1920: Worked for U.S. government and for Zeiss in Germany;
developed an optical tool for Harry Timken to monitor ball-bearing
production.
1920s Timken provides funding for a research lab in San Diego to study
effects of electromagnetic phenomena on disease-causing agents; Rife
develops the Universal Microscope and the Beam Ray Machine
1931 Rifes work endorsed by noted microbiologist Arthur Kendall
(Northwestern University) and physician Millbank Johnson (AMA West
Coast); banquet proclaiming The End to All Diseases held
1934 Clinical trials of Beam Ray machine; 16 patients cured of
cancers;
1938 Dread Disease Germs Destroyed by Rays; Morris Fishbein and
the AMA take notice
1940 All support for Rife and the technology disappears

Medical Miracle? Or Quackery

Rifes Universal Microscope

Beam Ray Machine ca. 1938

Long wavelengths, high resolution

hmmmm

What Rife saw..

Bacillus typhosus as viewed
with the Rife Microscope
Magnification ~ 23 25,000X

What we see.
Salmonella typhi as viewed
with an electron microscope
Magnification ~ 25,000X

A spattering of spores
Tetanus spore,
Rife microscope
~ 23 25,000X

Clostridium tetani
endospore, EM
15,000X, colorized

Why Rife developed the Beam Ray

Leading Causes of Death, 1921
(from Leading Causes of Death 1900-1998, www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/lead1900_98.pdf)

1. Diseases of the heart

2. Pneumonia (all forms) and influenza
3. Tuberculosis (all forms)
4. Intracranial lesions of vascular origin
5. Cancer and other malignant tumors
6. Nephritis (all forms)
7. Accidents excluding motor-vehicle
8. Diarrhea, enteritis, and ulceration of the intestines
9. Premature birth
10. Diphtheria

Lab notes on BX cancer virus discovery

Other cancer-like diseases caused by

filterable viruses at the time of Rife
Top, F.H. Communicable Diseases, 3rd ed. 1941, 1947, 1955

Lymphogranuloma venereum
Chlamydia

Opthalmia neonatorum, trachoma, ketatoconjunctivitis

Chlamydia

Primary atypical pneumonia

Mycoplasma

Chancroid
Hemophilus

Granuloma inguinale
Donovan body? Calymmatobacterium (pleomorphic, encapsulated, G-R);
other sources refer to it as a protozoan?

Other interesting tidbits from the past

Communicable Diseases, 3rd ed. 1941, 1947, 1955

Genital lesions identified as syphilitic (caused by

spirochete bacteria) are clearly genital warts (caused
by a virus)

Infectious Encephalitis
Cause unknown, blamed on a virus, but symptoms are
reminiscent of neuroborreliosis (neurological Lyme)

Difco Manual, 8th edition (1948) has no mention of

K Medium developed by Arthur Kendall

Right place, wrong time

Morris Fishbein and the AMA

Editor of JAMA from
1924 1949
Dominated medical
policy; discredited
and suppressed
what he could not
control

Monday, Jan. 02, 1939

Time Magazine

Medicine: A.M.A Indicted

In Washington, D. C. last year 2,500 low-salaried Government employees chipped in to form Group Health Association, Inc., which hired
nine physicians to provide complete medical care for members. Scarcely had the first patient visited the well-equipped G. H. A. clinic when
the District Medical Society, a branch of the American Medical Association, turned on the heat. It has been accused of refusing to let G. H.
A. doctors use local hospitals, consult with local specialists. Reason: G. H. A. is a health-insurance project, and the A. M. A. is opposed to
group health insurance combined with practice, which, it claims, limits a patient's choice of his doctor, and prevents free competition
among doctors.
Unless the A. M. A. was looking for a test case, Washington, right under the nose of the Department of Justice, was a bad place for heat
on-turning. Last October Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, in charge of monopoly investigation, haled the District
Society before a grand jury because he believed that boycott of the G. H. A. violated the "Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The jury, which included
salesmen, executives, engineers, a brewer and a taxicab driver, listened to about 100 witnesses from Washington hospitals and medical
organizations all over the country. It learned that the District Society had expelled G. H. A. Physician Mario Victor Scandiffio and had forced
another doctor to resign from the G. H. A. staff. It read a resolution of the District Society to throttle "successful operation of G. H. A., Inc."
and examined the letters A. M. A.'s Morris Fishbein had sent the society.
Last week the Jury returned an indictment not only against the District Society but against A. M. A., the Washington Academy of Surgery,
the Harris County (Texas) Medical Society,* 16 Washington physicians, and five A. M. A. executives, including Official Spokesmen Olin West
and Morris Fishbein.
The indictment stressed the power of the A. M. A., which claims as members 110,000 of the 145,000 practicing U. S. doctors and, as a
corporation, has an income of several million dollars a year. The A. M. A., said the indictment, "condemns as 'unethical' group medical
practice on a risk-sharing prepayment basis principally because such practice is in business competition with . . . doctors engaged in
[private] practice."
Undaunted by the indictment, A. M. A. Editor Morris Fishbein quoted the House of Delegates: "[We will exhaust], if necessary, the last
recourse of distinguished legal talent to establish the ultimate right of organized medicine to ... oppose types of contract practice
damaging to the health of the public." A. M. A.'s "legal talent" made it clear that they would take the tack that medicine is a learned
profession, not a trade, and thus does not fall within the scope of the Sherman Act. Attorney Arnold hopes that the A. M. A. will soon file a
demurrer to the indictment. If the demurrer is granted, Attorney Arnold will be able to take the case directly to the Supreme Court.

Did Rife cure cancer by killing bacteria?

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Maybe he did.
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Does high frequency electromagnetic radiation

(radio waves) kill the Lyme spirochete?
[Electromagnetic fields of extremely high frequency
and radon baths in the treatment of Lyme disease with
nervous system lesions]
Patients with borreliosis caused by exodic tick
infestation running with affection of the nervous
system were exposed to scanning EHF-therapy (5963 GHz) on biologically active zones of the upper
third of the chest, right brachial joint, biologically
active points GI4, E36. Also, they took radon baths.
The treatment was planned with consideration of
the principles of chronotherapy. This therapeutic
approach produced stimulation of general adaptive
reactions and reparative processes in the peripheral
nervous system.
Retrieved from the Russian journal below (Medline)
Abstract from Voprosy Kurortologii, Fizioterapii, I Lechebno Fizichesko Kultury [Vopr Kurortol Fizioter
Lech Fiz Kult] 2003 Mar-Apr (2), pp. 21-3.
Authors: Levitski EF; Zatsev AA; Abdulkina NG; Dostovalova OV; Mavliautdinova IM

Bernard was right, I was wrong. The

germ is nothing
the milieu is everything.
Louis Pasteur, on his deathbed