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Harmful Earth ray emissions can be detrimental to humans, animals and plants, but their effects can be avoided by taking simple preventive measures. Part 1 n 1975, Herbert Douglas, a businessman living in Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA, drove to a neighbouring town on a mission of mercy. Arriving at his destination, he took out a plastic dowsing rod and went over every room in a two-storey house, being par- ticularly careful to check the area around and under the bed where a twelve-year-old girl with a double curvature of the spine had been sleeping since early childhood. Douglas found that the house itself had an unusually high number of water veins flow- ing beneath it and that there were no less than thirty-five intersections of veins under the afflicted child's bed. He immediately suggested to the distraught parents that the bed be moved to a part of the house where no veins would run under it. For the next ten days the child told her parents that the chronic pain in her spine was increasing. Then the pain sud- denly began to diminish, to the befuddlement of the girl's doctor who noticed, during a visit to fit her for a full body brace, that the curvature had noticeably decreased. Several months later Douglas received a letter from the child's mother stating that her daughter no longer was suffering any pain at all and that the curvature had diminished suf- ficiently to obviate any necessity for the brace. The notion that the onset of disease might be linked to telluric emanations came to Dou- glas as a persistent theme in observations by English authors. Before World War II, in his book, Dowsing, W. M. Trinder had written: "There seems to be very little doubt that rays given off by subterranean water are, if continuous contact is maintained with them, defi- nitely harmful to both human beings and plants. I have known instances of people suffer- ing from nerves and also cases of rheumatism. In all these cases the sufferers were spend- ing a large part of every twenty-four hours right over a subterranean stream, and this was slowly having the most deleterious effect on their health.” Echoing Trinder, Marguerite Maury in her own book, How to Dowse, stated: "Whatey- er may be the cause of telluric emissions—sheets of water, subterranean streams or dry faults—the effects produced on the health of animals and human beings is nearly always harmful. If there are several streams superimposed, the emission at the surface will be particularly bad." The French dowsing experl, Abbé Mermet, Douglas found, also insisted that water veins could produce ill effects on human health. He wrote that radiations associated with them were “transmitted from floor to floor in any house situated above them. One may be exposed to them in a workshop, a factory, an office as well as in the flat on the tenth floor of a building. It is in a bedroom that their presence is the most harmful for, in such a case, the affected individual is not only subjected to the bad effects of such radiations but is also deprived of sound and regenerating sleep. Impaired health results in consequence, and the affected person suffers from various ailments which neither he nor the doctor can account for." Wondering whether there was any substance to the idea, Douglas began checking the beds of people who complained of arthritis to find that his rod always detected veins of water beneath them and, more significantly, that two or more veins crossed directly under the part of the body that hurt. In a two-part article in the Bennington (Vermont) Banner, Douglas reported that every one of the patients who had begun sleeping in a new location experienced a substantial reduction or complete disappearance of arthritic pain within periods of time ranging from five days to three months. Forwarding these findings to US health authorities in Wash- ington, DC, he elicited a reply characterising his results as "intriguing and seeming to call for additional investigation". by Christopher Bird © 1979, 1995 8165 Dockery Road Blairsville, GA 30512, USA Phone +1 (706) 745 8202 Fax +1 (706) 745 9169 by Christopher Bird ©1979, 1995 8165 Dockery Road Blairsville, GA 30512, USA Phone +1 (706) 745 8202 Fax +1 (706) 745 9169 NEXUS ¢ 37 APRIL-MAY 1996 NOXIOUS RAYS FROM UNDERGROUND