The History of Pleomorphism and the Inventions of Royal Raymond Rife
JOHN CRANE, JOHN MARSH, AND THE NEXT GENERATION OF FREQUENCY DEVICES
Several years prior to Mamie’s death, when Rife was selling, piece by piece, his remaining equipment to pay for food, he met John Crane. Crane did not compensate Rife nearly enough for the equipment that he bought, but he did take Rife and Mamie into his home.
Then, in 1953, another key player in the Rife saga appeared: John Marsh. Marsh had recently moved to San Diego to obtain treatments for his wife, who had cancer.
However, her doctors said that there was nothing they could do for what they believed was a terminal condi-tion. When Marsh was assigned as supervisor to John Crane at their workplace, Convair Aeronautics, Crane told Marsh about Rife. After considerable persuasion, Rife gave them an old Beam Rays instrument, which they repaired.
Marsh’s wife was cured after six treatments.
The Beam Rays unit, while it benefited the Marshes, could not be used for the general public because in 1953, it would not have passed FCC regulations. If Rife’s tech-nology was to survive, it had to be modified so that not only was it accessible to the average person—portable, affordable and easy to use—but also legal.
Thus, “a friendship [began] between these three men that would last for years,” writes Garff. “Dr. Rife, John Crane and John Marsh worked together as a team in the 1950’s and early 60s. They formed a company called
Instruments.” 68 Verne Thompson was hired by Life Labs to make their equipment. Thompson updated the audio frequency instrument he had built around 1942, and in 1953, the AZ-58 was launched.
Some questions have been asked about Rife’s alcoholism during this period. Did his drinking affect his involve-ment in the building of these Life Lab devices? Prior to the discovery of the Marsh documents, it was assumed that Rife was drinking so heavily, he was part of this project in name only. But, Jeff Garff points out, it’s “clear from John Marsh’s papers that Dr. Rife was not on the sidelines, but was a working partner in Life Labs. Dr. Rife by this time had become what some people call a working alcoholic.
This type of drinker would have a little to drink during the day to take the edge off, but would not be a total drunk.” 69
The AZ-58, also a ray tube instrument, had a power usage of about 460 watts. Output to the ray tube was about 15 watts. The unit’s 4.68 MHz carrier frequency was in full compliance with the FCC license that they had for this instrument. Since there was no variable RF oscillator to heterodyne with the fixed RF oscillator, the instrument did not create higher-frequency harmonics that would interfere with radio broadcasts.
The AZ-58’s audio oscillator produced square wave audio frequencies, which by definition are solely in the Hz range. These audio frequencies were modulated onto its sine wave carrier frequency. Square waves, which are literally squared-off and flat on top (as compared to rounded sine waves), inherently do contain (odd num-bered) harmonics. To some extent, these harmonics can produce effects similar to those of a higher-frequency sine wave. “This is the first time [a] square wave was used,”
Garff writes. Life Labs
lowered the frequencies by a factor of 10 and changed them from sine wave to a square wave waveform. . . . John Crane said this is when the instruments started to work better. It is ironic that they had to use a square wave that produces harmonics in order to get the instrument to even begin to give them any results. . . . John Marsh and John Crane considered the [lower, audio range] frequencies to be Dr. Rife’s, and the AZ-58 instrument to be Dr. Rife’s instrument.
. . . [Evidence for this is] a plaque on the front of the instrument with [Rife’s] name on it.70
We know that the AZ-58 device did no harm. But the all-important question is, did it heal? Physician Robert P. Stafford, who spent many hours with the AZ-58 from 1957 to 1962, faithfully recorded its performance. He was
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Rife’s first high-powered microscope, built in 1920.
Courtesy of Rife Research Group of Canada
Rife’s Microscope No. 4, intended for commercial production.
Courtesy of Rife Research Group of Canada
Rife’s Microscope No. 5. This was his last model.
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Rife Universal Microscope No. 3.
Inscription on top reads, “Designed and built by Royal R. Rife, 1933.”
Plaque at base reads, “Property of Rife Research Lab.”
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Entamoeba histolytica (amoeba), as seen through Rife’s microscope.
All photos courtesy of Rife Research Group of Canada
Algae cells,
as seen through Rife’s microscope.
Escherichia coli,
as seen through Rife’s microscope.
This specimen is stained with a dye created by Rife, which did kill the microorganisms.
Salmonella typhimurium, in transition into the filterable state,
showing three filterable granules instead of the usual one, as seen through Rife’s microscope.
Clostridium tetani (tetanus) spore, as seen through Rife’s microscope.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis), rod form, as seen through Rife’s microscope.
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Front page article on Rife, The San Diego Union, November 3, 1929.
Rife is an expert in more lines than the average man has time to dabble in. He is an able bacteriologist, embryologist, electrical and scientific engineer, metallurgist, chemist, photo-micrographer, and he plays with scientific crime detection. As recreation he takes to target shooting in terms of half-inch bullseyes.
His chief enthusiasm, however, is the inquiry into the causes, agen-cies and forms of diseases, and it is this enthusiasm that has caused him to develop his various pieces of apparatus, and to refine them to an efficiency beyond all precedent.
—The San Diego Union, November 3, 1929
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Both photos courtesy of Jeff Garff
Amelia Bridges estate in San Diego, California.
Rife’s first laboratory was on the top floor of the garage, which is the small white building on the left.
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Articles on Rife and his microscope, unknown newspapers, 1931.
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Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand
in favorable comparison with the products of nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
—thoMas alva edison, aMericaninventor (1847–1931)