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fungi, these fungi being identical morphologically both macroscopi- 
cally and microscopically to that of the orchid and of the mushroom. 
And yet a fourth change may be said to take place when this crypto- 
myces pleomorphia, permitted to stand as a stock culture for the period 
of metastasis, becomes the well-known mahogany-colored Bacillus 
coli. 
It is Dr. Rife’s belief that all micro-organisms fall into 1 of not 
more than 10 individual groups (Dr. Rosenow has stated that some of 
the viruses belong to the group of the streptococcus), and that any 
alteration of artificial media or slight metabolic variation in tissues 
will induce an organism of one group to change over into any other 
organism included in that same group, it being possible, incidentally, 
to carry such changes in media or tissues to the point where the or- 
ganisms fail to respond to standard laboratory methods of diagnosis. 
These changes can be made to take place in as short a period of time 
as 48 hours. For instance, by altering the media—4 parts per million 
per volume—the pure culture of mahogany-colored Bacillus coli be- 
comes the turquoise-blue Bacillus typhosus. Viruses or primordial 
cells of organisms which would ordinarily require an 8-week incuba- 
tion period to attain their filterable state, have been shown to produce 
disease within 3 days’ time, proving Dr. Rife’s contention that the 
incubation period of a micro-organism is really only a cycle of rever- 
sion. He states: 
In reality, it is not the bacteria themselves that produce the disease, but we 
believe it is the chemical constituents of these micro-organisms enacting upon 
the unbalanced cell metabolism of.the human body that in actuality produce the 
disease. We also believe if the metabolism of the human body is perfectly bal- 
anced or poised, it is susceptible to no disease. 
In other words, the human body itself is chemical in nature, being 
comprised of many chemical elements which provide the media upon 
which the wealth of bacteria normally present in the human system 
feed. These bacteria are able to reproduce. They, too, are composed 
of chemicals. Therefore, if the media upon which they feed, in this 
instance the chemicals or some portion of the chemicals of the human 
body, become changed from the normal, it stands to reason that these 
same bacteria, or at least certain numbers of them, will also undergo 
a change chemically since they are now feeding upon media which 
are not normal to them, perhaps being supplied with too much or too 
little of what they need to maintain a normal existence. They change, 
passing usually through several stages of growth, emerging finally as 
some entirely new entity—as different morphologically as are the 
caterpillar and the butterfly. (to use an illustration given us). The 
majority of the viruses have been definitely revealed as living organ- 
isms, foreign organisms it is true, but which once were normal inhab- 
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