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which would enable a frequency of light to coordinate with the chemical constituents of the particle or micro-organism under observation. Rife's second microscope was finished in 1929. In an article which appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine on December 27, 1931, the existence of the light-staining method was reported to the public: "Bacilli may thus be studied by their light, exactly as astronomers study moons, suns, and stars by the light which comes from them through telescopes. The bacilli studied are living ones, not corpses killed by stains." Throughout most of this period, Rife also had been seeking a way to identify and then destroy the micro-organism which caused cancer. His cancer research began in 1922. It would take him until 1932 to isolate the responsible micro-organism which he later named simply the "BX virus". THE EARLY 1930s In 1931, the two men who provided the greatest professional support to Royal R. Rife came into his life. Dr Arthur I. Kendall, Director of Medical Research at Northwestern University Medical School in Illinois, and Dr Milbank Johnson, a member of the board of directors at Pasadena Hospital in California and an influ- ential power in Los Angeles medical circles. Dr Kendall had invented a protein culture medium (called "K Medium" after its inventor) which enabled the ‘filtrable virus’ por- tions of a bacteria to be isolated and to continue reproducing. This claim directly contradicted the Rockefeller Institute's Dr Thomas Rivers who in 1926 had authoritatively stated that a virus needed a living tissue for reproduction. Rife, Kendall and others were to prove within a year that it was possible to cultivate viruses artifi- cially. Rivers, in his ignorance and obstinacy, was responsible for suppressing one of the greatest advances ever made in medical knowledge. Kendall arrived in California in mid-November 1931 and Johnson introduced him to Rife. Kendall brought his "K Medium" to Rife and Rife brought his microscope to Kendall. A typhoid germ was put in the "K Medium", triple-filtered through the finest filter available, and the results examined under Rife's microscope. Tiny, distinct bodies stained in a turquoise- blue light were visible. The virus cultures grew in the "K Medium" and were visible. The viruses could be ‘light'-stained and then classified according to their own colours under Rife's unique microscope. A later report which appeared in the Smithsonian's annual publi- cation gives a hint of the totally original microscopic technology which enabled man to see a deadly virus-size micro-organism in its live state for the first time (the electron microscope of later years kills its specimens): "Then they were examined under the Rife microscope where the filterable virus form of typhoid bacillus, emitting a blue spectrum colour, caused the plane of polarization to be deviat- ed 4.8 degrees plus. When the opposite angle of refraction was obtained t means of adjusting the polarizing prisms to minus 4.8 degrees and the cultures of viruses were illuminated by the monochromatic beams coordinated with the chemical con- stituents of the typhoid bacillus, small, oval, actively motile, bright tu ane be bodies were observed at 5,000X magnifi- cation, in high contrast to the colorless and motionless debris of the — These tests were repeated 18 times to verify the results." Following the success, Dr Milbank Johnson quickly arranged a dinner in honour of the two men in order that the discovery could be announced and discussed. More than 30 of the most prominent medical doctors, pathologists, and bacteriologists in Los Angeles attended this historic event on November 20, 1931. Among those in attendance were Dr Alvin G. Foord, who 20 years later would indicate he knew little about Rife's discoveries, and Dr George Dock who would serve on the University of Southern California's Special Research Committee overseeing the clinical work until he, too, would ‘go over’ to the opposition. On November 22, 1931, the Los Angeles Times reported this important medical gathering and its scientific significance: "Scientific discoveries of the greatest magnitude, including a discussion of the world's most powerful microscope recently perfected after 14 years' effort by Dr Royal R. Rife of San Diego, were described Friday evening to members of the medical pro- fession, bacteriologists and ae at a dinner given by Dr Milbank Johnson in honour of Dr Rife and Dr A. |. Kendall. "Before the gathering of distinguished men, Dr Kendall told of his researches in cultivating the typhoid bacillus on his new "K Medium". The typhoid bacillus is nonfilterable and is large enough to be seen easily with Say in general use. Through the use of "Medium K", Dr Kendall said, the organism is so altered that it cannot be seen with ordinary microscopes and it becomes small enough to be ultra-microscopic or filter- able. It then can be changed back to the microscopic or non- filterable form. "Through the use of Dr Rife's powerful microscope, said to have a visual power of magnification to 17,000 times, com- pared with 2,000 times of which the ordinary microscope is capable, Dr Kendall said he could see the typhoid bacilli in the filterable or formerly invisible stage. It is probably the first time the minute filterable (virus) organisms ever have been seen. "The strongest microscope now in use can magnify between 2,000 and 2,500 times. Dr Rife, by an ingenious arrangement of lenses applying an entirely new optical principle and by introducin, puuble quartz prisms and powerful illuminating lights, has devised a microscope with a lowest magnification of 5,000 times and a maximum working magnification of 17,000 times. "The new microscope, scientists predict, also will prove a development of the first magnitude. Frankly dubious about the perfection of a microscope which appears to transcend the lim- its set by optic science, Dr Johnson's guests expressed them- selves as delighted with the visual demonstration and heartily accorded both Dr Rife and Dr Kendall a foremost place in the world's rank of scientists." NEXUS*27 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1993