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THIS article is occasioned by recent popular descriptions1–9of an apparently well-attested case of luminescence in a human being in Italy, and the references to mitogenetic radiation which accompany them. The subject is a woman suffering from asthma. She is psychologically abnormal—intensely religious and hysterical-and the phenomenon of light emission occurs during light sleep, in circumstances which suggest that it is connected with these abnormalities. It lasts about three seconds, is of sufficiently high intensity to be photographed with an exposure of one sixteenth of a second, and is accompanied by increased respiratory movements, greatly increased pulse rate, and by the utterance of “moaning sounds and expressions”.
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BATEMAN, J. Mitogenetic Radiation and Bioluminescence. Nature 133, 860 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133860a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133860a0