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VIBRATIONS AND RAYS be given in a monograph which we hope will be published during the coming year. In brief, we effect this in two ways, by oxidizing a whole brain and measuring the resultant radiations, and immediately, from the exposed brain by means of a Geiger-Muller Counter, attached to a specially constructed photo-electric cell. The radiations emitted by oxidation of tissue are shown by photography, using quartz and vita-glass filters.
Last year, Dr. Crile and his assistants demonstrated before the National Academy of Sciences at Cleveland that brain-tissue gives off a visible radiation, and also infra-red radiations and radiations of wave-lengths beyond the ultraviolet. Chemicals that decrease this radiation are poisonous, and experiments with chloroform and ether indicate that certain radiations of the short infra-red, and of the ultra-violet type, are necessary for the existence of consciousness. Small quantities of alcohol added to the brain increase radiations, while large quantities decrease it. “The brain of animals,” Dr. Crile stated, "shines by its own light; the sun shines again in the protoplasm of animals.” It seems as though there may be an inexhaustible field for research in the study of these lately-revealed forms of light.*
In his “Bi-polar Theory of Living Processes," Scc The New York Times, November 22nd, 1934.
