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structures, neither structures of water nor of solid matter, nor a 

 perturbed electromagnetic field. The other way of living, the 

 aerobic one, demands order, both order of the solid matter and 

 order in the water, and has a perturbed electromagnetic field for its 

 foundation.^ It seems reasonable to suppose that triplet excitations, 

 and energy transmissions which presuppose an orderly structure, 

 play a role not only in oxidation but also in the most varied bio- 

 logical functions and their regulations, and thus demand not only 

 structure and order but also a perturbed electromagnetic field, 

 which is established by oxidation and its triplets under the priming 

 action of O2. Cell division may belong to these functions, its 

 orderly mytotic way being linked to order, structure, and what 

 goes with it. 



Looking at cancer and its relation to oxidation and fermentation 

 from this angle, things may seem somewhat clearer. If O2 is with- 

 held from tissues of a higher organism for a longer period, death 

 follows. If, however, O2 is withheld but periodically, as in the 

 experiments of Cameron and Goldblatt, and restored before death 

 ensues, then we can expect not only that the oxidative system will 

 become disorganized but also that there will be degeneration of 

 all those higher functions and regulations which demand structure 

 and a perturbed electromagnetic field for their function and ener- 



^ It would be interesting to measure the magnetic susceptibility of aerobic, 

 living, and respiring cells and compare it with the susceptibility of anaerobic, 

 as well as dead, cells. If the suggestions contained in this chapter are correct, 

 the first should be found slightly paramagnetic, beyond the paramagnetism 

 induced by the O2 present, while the latter should be diamagnetic. A shift in 

 the latter direction should be found in cancer cells. 



The dielectric constant of cancer should show less frequency dependence 

 than that of normal tissues, cancer having a lower degree of organization 

 and with it also less water structure. 



No light emission was produced in illuminated anaerobic frozen ribo- 

 flavine solutions by placing them in a magnetic field of about 20,000 

 oersted. So it is not a simple static disturbance of the field which causes 

 the emission in the presence of oxygen but there are more involved inter- 

 actions between the O2 molecule and the excited riboflavine. 



