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GEORGES LAKHOVSKY is an engineer who, struck by the idea that radiation might be concerned in the peculiar phenomena of life, formulated a hypothesis and has collected evidence in support of his views. Reduced to its simplest terms his theory is that the cell, as the unit of life, is an electromagnetic resonator, capable of emitting and absorbing radiations of very high frequency, that life is the harmony of multiple radiations of all the cells in a body reacting upon one another, and that disease is a disequilibrium introduced from outside into the cell-harmony.
The Secret of Life
Cosmic Rays and Radiations of Living Beings. By Georges Lakhovsky. Translated from the French by Mark Clement. Pp. viii + 201. (London: William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., 1939.) 10s. 6d. net.
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RITCHIE, J. The Secret of Life. Nature 146, 538 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146538a0
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