Royal Rife
Royal Raymond Rife ( May 16, 1888 - August 11, 1971 ) was an American inventor of optical microscopes . It has also acquired limited importance in the field of alternative medicine.
Life
Rife grew up in Elkhorn , Nebraska and later moved to San Diego , where he first took a job as a chauffeur for an influential family that later supported him financially. He then worked for a German company for optical devices and began to privately develop light microscopes and medical treatment devices and to be interested in health issues, especially cancer. He patented some of his inventions and tried to market them.
In the 1980s, Rife's inventions revived. Various individuals and companies took on Rife's inventions and hypotheses, and a variety of products emerged in the alternative medicine market.
Products marketed today under the Rife name include:
- Plasma lamp and beam ray devices
- Replicas of the Universal Microscope
- Rife machines: Devices that emit a weak alternating voltage that could be used therapeutically for electromedical stimulation
Crime story
In 1960 his development workshop was searched and parts of the laboratory equipment were confiscated by the authorities. The background to this was an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regarded some of the devices developed by Rife as unapproved medical devices. There was a lawsuit against Rife and his colleague Crane. Rife himself was arrested and released on bail. He later fled to Mexico to avoid jail time and did not return to the United States until 1964. His associate, Crane, was sentenced to ten years in prison but released after three years.
The Rife microscopes
In 1933, Rife invented a so-called universal microscope , with which he examined microorganisms himself. According to him, it was a complex optical microscope with several lenses and prisms and a polarizing filter . By 1938 he had developed five different optical microscopes. He stated that the magnification achieved exceeded the theoretically achievable magnification for optical microscopes and gives magnifications of up to 31,000 times (according to other information: 60,000). The decisive factor, however, is the resolution of a microscope, not the magnification.
Rife stated that he was able to use this microscope to observe the existence of viruses directly in vivo in the dark field or with the help of polarization filters , and also believed that he had discovered previously unknown pathogens thanks to his own microscope. Rife also stated that he was able to produce spectrograms for individual microorganisms with the help of prisms . Every microorganism has its own specific spectrogram. By using a prism, he believed he was able to adjust the illumination of his microscope to the respective spectral range for the respective microorganism. According to Rife, 75% of the pathogens he had previously unknown were only visible in ultraviolet light. However, since UV light is invisible to humans, he used UV light of different wavelengths from two light sources and tried to see the difference frequency between them in the range of the wavelengths of visible light. At the same time, he believed that he had identified certain frequency ranges of light (including the ultraviolet frequency range of light) which, if they were supplied from outside, could selectively kill certain microorganisms. This would lead to a resonance phenomenon between these organisms and the corresponding wavelength (or frequency) of the light. He called this resonance frequency the "Mortal Oscillation Rate". However, a study of such a microscope published in 1938 in recent years showed a conventional electric light bulb as the light source. Gradual heating of illuminated slides usually leads to the drying out of tissue samples and thus to the death of cells or microorganisms. Analogous to a selectively effective part of the light spectrum, he also believed in a therapeutic effectiveness of sinusoidal alternating voltages of certain frequencies in the range of radio waves. Individual frequencies would have a selectively damaging effect on certain microorganisms.
Rife believed in the existence of a tuberculosis virus that was smaller than the corresponding mycobacteria , and he also said that there was a cancer virus that he called the BX virus or Bacillus X or Cryptocides primoriales and that was always found in tumor tissue . Its flagellated BX virus is said to be actively motile, is said to be 66 nm in length and is derived from the Escherichia bacterium . With the help of other people, he cultivated the BX virus in question in a tissue sample . Like some researchers of his time, he believed in a pleomorphism hypothesis , which has since been refuted , according to which microorganisms could develop into somatic cells or tumor cells.
The beam ray device ( plasma lamp )
In 1954 he patented a high-frequency flash lamp under the name beam ray , which he assumed was suitable for therapeutic purposes. The flash lamp was controlled by a generator operating at 3 MHz , which could be continuously modulated with a modulation frequency between 20 Hz and 200 kHz. Later investigations showed that the free-running oscillator was very unstable in frequency. To market it he founded a company together with the actual manufacturer Hoyland the Beam Ray Inc . However, only about 17 devices were made. The beam-ray has not been approved by the FDA for medical applications and its use for medicinal purposes has been banned.
criticism
Many of Rife's hypotheses and views were already heavily criticized during their lifetime due to a lack of evidence and contradictions to scientific findings and met with general rejection. Many of Rife's experiments and views are in flagrant contradiction to current scientific knowledge. Neither his microscopes nor his claims about therapies against microorganisms or cancer have ever appeared in recognized publications. Several businessmen marketing Rife-related medical products have now been convicted in the United States.
Rife's claim to have a doctorate from a university seems incredible, since the university he named denied it.
literature
- American Cancer Society: Questionable methods of cancer management: Electronic devices. A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 44: 115-127, 1994
- Barry Lynes, The Cancer Cure That Worked
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rife, Royal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rife, Royal Raymond |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1888 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1971 |