Research project: submicroscopic particles in blood plasma

[C. Roy Keys]

Appeal for collaboration:

This is a proposal for parallel lab research to identify minute
particles in the plasma of the blood, which earlier researchers
have associated with the onset of malignancies. 

Beale, in "The Microscope in Medicine" (1878) notes: "If we examine
blood with the highest powers, not only do we meet with extremely
minute corpuscules, but many of these are so transparent that they
could not have been seen at all under lower power." (p. 256).

I would like to invite readers to participate in project to identify
the particles to which Beale is referring. These particles, I might
add, have travelled under various pseudonyms: they are the
microzymes of Antoine Bechamp (1860s), the protits of Guenther
Enderlein, and the somatids of Gaston Naessens.  Their
developmental forms (assuming as did Bechamp, Enderlein, Gruner,
Rife, Naessens and others, that they are pleomorphic) include the
pathogenic microbes that constitute the viral, bacterial and fungal
etiological forms of cancers. Recall that a viral origin of cancers
was discussed by Barnard et al. in the Lancet (July 18, 1925, as
reported in Scientific American, October 1925). Rife and
collaborators published some of their findings in Science and in
the journal of California and Western Medicine, with reports in
the Franklin Institute and Smithsonian magazines. Gruner in CMAJ
and a series of monographs. Enderlein in articles in German
scientific journals during and after the first world war and in a
book which appeared in 1925. 

My associates and I have managed to persuade researchers at McGill
university and a local hospital to attempt to isolate and perform
chemical and biochemical analysis of the particles, and the
Naessens group has offered to assist with microscopy, mainly by
providing the proper substage condenser for visualization of the
tiny bodies (on the order of .02 micron, I believe). However, owing
to time constraints and lack of equipment, we have not made much
progress as yet. If any of the readers of this message would like
to participate in this project, we should certainly be interested
in knowing of their experience.

The preliminary analysis requires the following setup:
A good quality light microscope with 100 watt halogen light
source, 100x objective with diaphragm, and a substage condenser
suitable for high magnification dark field, i.e. 1000+ X).

Blood samples can be obtained readily by pricking the meaty
portion of the right middle digit (after swabbing with alcohol) and
touching gently to a slide. Do not contact the finger, only the
bead of blood. No further preparation need be made. Drop the cover
slip gently over the tiny bead on the slide, and you should have a
round pool of blood with 1 layer only of cells. In the plasma,
depending on the subject's state of health, there should be
visible a swarm of motile particles. Other features, apart from
standard white and red cells, platelets and fibrin, may also be
seen, but these may indicate different existing or potential health
problems (different higher forms in the pleomorphic cycle of the
primary microbe). The difficult part of the work will involve
fractioning or culturing the primary form, since they are so
small. Of course, it will also be of interest to identify the
other, higher forms of the microbe, should these be encountered.

If anyone you is interested in participating in this project, I
would be very grateful if you could contact me directly or maintain
a thread in this newsgroup.

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