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The Healing

Power

of Light

Wm Campbell Douglass II M.D.

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Contents

Introduction............................................................3

Chapter 1:

It’s Miraculous!.......................................................5

Chapter 2:

Prerequisite for Health............................................9

Chapter 3:

The Wide World of

Photoluminescence...............................................13

Chapter 4:

Case Studies by the Pioneers................................27

Chapter 5:

Conclusion............................................................37

Chapter 6:

Epilogue................................................................41

Index.....................................................................45

Introduction

It is hard to believe that the body’s own immune response can

be stimulated to heal itself? Could something as simple as

light be powerfully effective it can bring countless suffering

people back from the very brink of death? It can, and it has.

It’s “photoluminescence”. And it has been ignored and

suppressed for over 40 years.

Why? It’s the old suspicion: “If it’s supposed to cure everything,

then it probably cures nothing.” In this case, nothing could be further

from the truth. …she was brighter, her chills had ceased, all toxic symptoms

were gone, and she was well on her way to recovery. This woman was

saved, literally, by a few pennies’ worth of electricity…

…everything was completely normal, with no evidence of any tumor…

…the response to only one treatment with ultraviolet light can only be

described as miraculous.

…She was told to “just go home and die.” But a month later, she was

well enough for surgery… Our success in Africa gets to the bottom line…

photoluminescence works on AIDS.

And yet …from the medical establishment, nothing. No

support, no research, no interest. Silence. Or worse, persecution.

But the true worth of any therapy is its results on patients, not

on the blackboards at medical school or the pages of textbooks.

We must judge photoluminescence by the highest standard: How much

suffering has it relieved? How many lives has it saved? To do that,

we must look at the track record. Now is your chance to do just that.

Chapter 1

It’s Miraculous!

John B., aged 35, looked 10 years younger that his age. But

looks can be deceiving, because John was slowly dying. This

highly intelligent, personable and productive man was dying

of AIDS.

For two years, he had gone along with his doctors’ advice

concerning treatment until the doctor suggested the

medication AZT. John refused, as he felt the drug, from what

he had seen among his friends with AIDS, was nothing but a

prolonged death sentence. This greatly irritated his doctor,

who apparently could not handle any challenge to his

authority. Their relationship rapidly deteriorated. John

realized that conventional medicine had offered him all that it

had, and, because of the doctor’s hostile, arrogant, and even

impolite attitude toward him, he must make a change in the

direction of his treatment.

He was referred to us by a colleague from another state, and

we informed him, regrettably, that we could not treat AIDS in

our clinic because of the great deal of exchange of blood in

our type of therapy. We felt it was not fair to our other

patients to involve AIDS patient in this clinical setting. We

had been told by the referring physician what a fine young

man John was and that it was fervently hoped by the referring

doctor and many members of the community that we would

do something to help this deserving patient. So, reluctantly, any treatment.

John turned out to be as described, and everyone one our staff

felt a need, in fact, and obligation, to help him. A separate

area with completely separate equipment was set up in order

to obviate any possibility of cross contamination, and we

undertook to help John fight his lonely battle with AIDS.

With a P-24 count of 52.3 and a T4 count of 150, we felt that

we were probably fighting a losing battle.

However, John was willing to do anything in his fight for life,

including driving a great distance from another state and

spending a considerable amount of time and money to at least

attempt to turn his apparently hopeless situation around. His

doctor had already told him that his liver function tests

indicated he was heading for severe liver disease and that

there was nothing else to do, especially if he refused to take

AZT. John was always cheerful; he had no bitterness toward

the doctor who had treated him so poorly; and he had a deep

abiding Christian faith that he felt would carry him through.

He had the support of his church, and the strong support of his

boss in a large company with which he has a very responsible

position.

We started our light therapy treatments on April 4, 1990, and

John’s turnaround was nothing short of a miracle. After only

seven treatments, his liver function returned to normal, and

his HIV indicators improved dramatically. He improved so

remarkably that after 17 treatments, the therapy was reduced,

his laboratory values for HIV began varying widely, and so

twice weekly treatments were resumed. His liver function has

remained normal since the first treatment. The last time I spoke

with John, he was clinically well and vigorous. (John’s

name was changed for his protection.)

Chapter 2

Light: Prerequisite for Health

Light and health have always gone together. Though only

recently have we begun to understand some of the reasons

why light is so beneficial, men have always instinctively

sought it.

Ancient men may not have known that exposure to light

helped their skin utilize vitamin D, or that light is itself an

essential nutrient, just like vitamin C. But they did know that

there was no therapy more helpful that walking in a field of

clover on a beautiful spring day, especially after being indoors

through a long winter. Both the mind and the body were

lifted, enriched and healed.

That being the case, perhaps it should come as no surprise to

us that light has seen greater implications for health when

coupled with modern medical science. If light has inherent

qualities that promote health, focusing those qualities where

they are most needed through variable-reducing scientific

techniques should provide for even greater healing.

Following such logic, medical scientists pioneered amazingly

effective techniques for light therapy early in this century.

Using the ultraviolet portion of the light spectrum, these

pioneers were able to cure many previously hopeless diseases.

In fact, an incredible variety of afflictions were cured using their

techniques. People near death, with formerly untreatable

conditions, were remarkably restored to complete health. The

future of light therapy seemed assured. At about the same time,

however, antibiotic treatment made its debut. Since antibiotics

also treated numerous diseases successfully, and since they had

the additional advantage (to the medical community) of

requiring the production of prescriptions drugs, they soon

became the treatment of choice.

Today, light therapy is all but unknown. However, it is just as

exciting and revolutionary today as it was half a century ago.

Proper use of light therapy holds health implications beyond the

imagination. It even offers very real hope for the treatment of AIDS.

Actual in-the-field clinical treatment of AIDS patients in Africa has

yielded enormously promising results in a high number of patients.

Other modern maladies that resist known therapy have also responded

well to light therapy. Just as important, the side effects are minimal.

With the proliferation of new diseases in our modern society, it is truly

time to fully exploit this most effective medical technique.

When any new medical treatment comes on the scene and is to

cure practically everything, it is looked upon by conventional

medicine with extreme suspicion. This is certainly understandable.

Antibiotics were supposed to stamp out

infectious disease; cortisone was supposed to stamp out

allergies; immunizations were supposed to stamp our infectious

disease entirely – none of this has happened. There are more

people in hospitals with infectious diseases than ever before in

modern times. Allergies are rampant. None of the panaceas

have worked. This is why light therapy is such an amazing

paradox. It is a tested and proven therapy which has accomplished

incredibly miraculous cures, with absolutely no

side effects, and yet, until recently, has virtually disappeared

from the medical scene.

What Is Light Therapy?

The most appropriate name for light therapy is probably

photoluminescence. A word that sounds mysterious and hi-tech,

photoluminescence is, actually, an extremely simple,

painless, and safe means of treating a patient. “Photo” refers

to light and “luminescence” refers to the emission of light.

Although this booklet deals primarily with the ultraviolet

portion of the energy spectrum, other energies from x-ray

through infrared, and perhaps beyond, can be applied to the

treatment of disease.

How is the process done? Very simply. Blood is withdrawn

from the patient using a needle and tubing, much the same as is

done when one is donating blood to the Red Cross. The tubing

is cut in two about the middle of its length and a quartz-glass

cuvette is inserted between the two ends of the tubing. As the

blood passes through this quartz cuvette, it is exposed to

ultraviolet light and then collected in a container at the end of

the tubing. Then the process is reversed right back into the

patient’s arm. An instrument is used to pump the blood out of

and back into the patient, and to house the ultraviolet light.

But as you can see, the process is a very simple one.

Ultraviolet light has been used in disinfection for many years

and is, in fact, still used for that purpose. Any contaminated

object, whether it be surgical instruments, bedding, room air,

the human skin, or body fluids such as blood, can be cleansed

rapidly of viruses and bacteria.

This killing of infectious organisms is a useful quality of

ultraviolet light, but it is not as important as another capability

of this remarkable part of the energy spectrum: the stimulation of

the immune system and various enzyme systems.

When a small quantity of blood is treated through

photoluminescence, an astounding thing happens. Through

some mechanism that is not completely understood, the body’s

defenses are organized rapidly to destroy all invading

organisms, whether viral, fungal or bacterial. The immune

system comes to life and rapidly brings the body back to a state

of balance.

To illustrate this phenomenon, allow me to describe two very

typical cases:

Don Pool drove a hundred miles into the mountains of Georgia

to bring his sister, Patrice, to see me for treatment. She had a

typical case of “the flu” with sneezing, coughing, aching, sore

throat, weakness and extreme fatigue.

In a simple 10-minute procedure, I treated her with

photoluminescence. Don Pool had driven his sister to my

clinic and so was able to observe her on the way back to their

home in Atlanta. He said that about an hour after leaving my

office, halfway back to Atlanta, she developed a severe aching

all over and a definite fever. She felt worse that she had before

the treatment. But by the time they reached home, an hour

later, she was completely well. Her runny nose, cough, aches

and pains, sneezing, and malaise were completely gone. They

simply could not believe it.

Don began to experience the same symptoms a few days later.

Because he had not taken my advice to be treated when he was

at my office with his sister, he drove back up to the mountains

to see me for treatment. His symptoms were not quite as bad

as Patrice’s but he had obviously caught the same flu virus.

We treated him in exactly the same way; he drove home and

experienced the same type of crisis as his sister. He called me

the next day to say that he, too, had completely recovered.

Chapter 3

The Wide World of Photoluminescence

That ultraviolet therapy is so useful in medical applications

should really be no surprise. It has long been recognized and

used by the medical profession in the treatment of various

disorders. For an even longer period of time it had been used

as a method of sterilization in medicine and in certain

commercial applications. In the “old days” some washing

machines had a built-in ultraviolet light. The light was a

promotion technique because it was common knowledge that

UV had an antibacterial effect. It was also a common practice

to irradiate public toilet seats with ultraviolet light.

In fact, the existing body of knowledge on ultraviolet therapy

is voluminous, thorough, distinguished and time tested.

Anyone interested in researching the subject can have access

to an incredible amount of scientific knowledge and research

from the work of a 100-year period. Following are just a few

examples of the many photoluminescence has proven

effective.

Blood Poisoning

If we define septicemia (blood poisoning) as the presence of

bacteria in the blood, the effects of photoluminescence on

septicemia is key to innumerable treatment benefits. Since

there are so many sources of this illness, hemo-irradiation will

cure many health problems (technically, any viral infection will

cause viremia – a form of blood poisoning, though it is

seldom considered as such). From an infected scratch or tooth

extraction to gas gangrene in a serious wound, photoluminescence

will help clear the blood of its bacterial and

viral contaminants. Thus, conditions as different from one

another as the flu and shrapnel wounds respond well to

photoluminescent treatment.

The improvement following hemo-irradiation is often quite

dramatic in cases of blood poisoning. Subjectively,

improvement in the mental state and clarity of thinking and

speaking can take place within a few minutes of hemoirradiation

treatment. By the following day, reduction in

toxemia is usually very noticeable and is associated with

speaking, the improvement is manifested through a fall in

temperature, diminution of the sedimentation rate (the time it

takes for red blood cells to settle in a test tube) and

improvement in the general blood picture.

With a reduction in the infective process, there is a rapid fall in

the white blood cell count back to normal. If the count has

been low due to poor response to the infection, it frequently

rises to an appropriate level for the severity of the infection.

Then, as the process continues, the white count will return to

the normal level again. Interestingly, photolumisescence

treatment will frequently correct a low white count even when

the condition is caused by certain medications.

Patients with septic toxemia (toxic symptoms due to a bacterial

blood stream infection) often complain of headache, muscular

ache, and other types of pain. However, when these patients

are hemo-irradiated, their pain is typically relieved in a very

dramatic manner. While the treatment takes only several

minutes, the patient is often completely pain free even before

this short time lapses.

Bronchopneumonia

Dr. Henry Barrett reported an interesting “hopeless case” of

bronchopneumonia in which antibiotics had completely failed

to help the patient:

I was called to treat a 25 year old female, a relative

of a physician, suffering from bronchial pneumonia.

She had been taken ill 12 days previously and when

seen by me she was in an oxygen tent. X-rays

revealed characteristic bronchopneumonia in both

lungs. The patient was moderately cyanotic. She

was not responding to the sulfa drug therapy. Her

physician and three consultants regarded the case as

hopeless, and hemo-irradiation was requested as a

last resort.

The usual dosage of hemo-irradiation was employed

in this case, and I requested that the oxygen be cut

down considerably following the irradiation, for we

have found that even before an irradiation is

completed, the color usually improves due to

greater oxygen absorption. It is not an uncommon

experience to see the patient with cyanosis become

pink even before the irradiation is completed. The

following day this patient was receiving no oxygen.

She was much stronger and was sitting up. She

convalesced satisfactorily, having received only one

hemo-irradiation.

In the preceding case, deemed to be hopeless by four different

physicians, this response to only one treatment with

ultraviolet light can only be described as miraculous

The Miraculous Cure of Polio

The effects of photoluminescence on polio may seem to be

irrelevant, since polio appears to have been stamped out in

North America. Nevertheless, isolated cases still occur, and

as you will see in the following case, the ability of

photoluminescence to counter such a debilitation disease is

simply more proof of its enormous value.

A seven-year-old boy was hospitalized September

12, 1946, with a temperature 104 degrees, after an

illness at home for seven days. He had signs of

bulbar polio on the day of admission to the hospital.

The child’s physician had told the parents that the

boy had one chance in 20 to live.

Ultraviolet blood irradiation of 40cc of blood was

given on the day of admission, and by midnight that

day, the temperature had dropped to normal with a

corresponding marked drop of pulse and respiration

rates and an amelioration of toxic symptoms. The

temperature never again rose above 100.4 degrees

His nurse noted that after the blood irradiation, she

had much less need for aspiration of mucus that

before. This was most likely due both to a decrease

in secretion and a prompt recovery of the ability to

swallow noted within 24 to 48 hours in every case of

bulbar polio treated.

The child was sent home in two weeks, and three

and a half months later, the father reported that “had

one not known that the child had polio, no present

sign would suggest it.”

Cancer Cure?

In reviewing the old literature on the use of ultraviolet

irradiation of the blood, it was surprising to note that

everything from infectious disease to arthritis was treated, but

there was no mention of cancer. It seemed odd that these

astute medical scientists had not treated cancer patients.

But as this booklet was about to go to press, a colleague and

friend sent me a short pamphlet written by Robert C. Olney,

M.D. Olney was a highly respected surgeon whose articles

had been published in the American Journal of Surgery (on

three separate occasions) and the Journal of the International

College of Surgeons.

When Olney began to publish his results on photoluminescent

treatment of cancer in the mid-60’s, he felt certain he would

be rejected, so he resorted to publishing a small pamphlet

(undated and not copyrighted) to describe his remarkable

cures.

Olney stated: With our present knowledge (1949) it should be

possible to prevent and wipe out cancer and serious infectious

diseases.” That’s a bold statement, but Olney backed it up by

proving cancer could be completely eliminated with the use of

photoluminescence, which he called UBI- Ultraviolet Blood

Irradiation.

According to Olney: We are in an era of destructive therapy, powerful

poisonous insecticides, fluoride poisoning,

embalmed foods. This is an era of ignoring the principles of healthful

living and then attempting to cure everything by taking an array of pills.

I believe that the so-called “accepted” methods of treating cancer are

no more successful today than they were 40 years ago. We are

entering on an era of prevention and simple, effective treatment of 

malignant, viral, bacterial and allergic diseases.

In his monograph, Olney reported five cases of cancer, out of

which he had five recoveries using ultraviolet blood

irradiation. One hundred percent is not a bad recovery rate

for a disease that is incurable by all “modern” methods. Here

is one of those cases:

On April 30, 1969, Mrs. I.W., a 50 year old white

female, entered the hospital for treatment with a large

tumor of the uterus that proved to be cancer.

The previous year the patient had been found to have

cancer of the cervix and uterus and was given radium

and cobalt treatments for a month. Six months later

she was re-examined. Her doctor told her that she

had a large cancer of the uterus and that nothing

could be done. He told her to “just go home and

die.”

When examined by Dr. Olney, she had a large tumor

of the uterus and pelvis. She was given photooxidation

therapy, four treatments the first week and

then once a week.

A month later, examination revealed a marked

reduction in the size of her tumor and it was felt that

she was now well enough to have the tumor removed

surgically. A hysterectomy was preformed. A

pathological examination of the specimen failed to reveal any

viable cancer tissue in the cervix or the uterus. The patient made

an uneventful recovery and did well with no recurrence of her malignancy.

In my own practice, I have also given several cancer patients

photoluminescent treatment. Like Dr. Olney, I have found it

to be far superior to any other cancer treatment available.

However, my treatment has been limited in efficacy by the

wavelength of light which I have been using. I have been

employing ultraviolet-C, while Dr. Olney used ultraviolet-A.

Ultraviolet–C is not the best frequency for treatment of

cancer, though, as you will see, it does produce some

beneficial results.

A Friend With Cancer

Patient D.P. is a personal friend, as well as a patient. At about

11:45 p.m. on April Fools Day, 1989, his sister called me,

almost hysterical, and stated that she found her brother

collapsed in the bathroom, cold, clammy, unconscious and

deathly pale.

The first thing a doctor thinks of in this situation is a massive

bleeding episode from something in the intestinal tract. I

instructed her to call the ambulance service immediately and

have him taken to the hospital, informing them that his

doctor’s diagnosis was a bleeding peptic ulcer with hemorrhagic shock.

The hospital staff agreed with my diagnosis and subsequent

tests, including endoscopic examination of his stomach and

CT scan, revealed a mass which turned out to be a large-cell

lymphoma in the top part of his stomach, taking up over one third

of the stomach area. The mass was about the size of a

grapefruit.

Against my advice, the patient started chemotherapy 12 days

after leaving the hospital. We gave him hydrogen peroxide

intravenously three times a week. The peroxide treatment

was started before chemotherapy, was continued during and

then also continued after he stopped his chemotherapy.

Concurrently, he was given photoluminescent treatment.

He noted that he had absolutely no side effects from the

chemotherapy when he was also being treated with

photooxidation. D.P. said, “When you would leave town, I

would always have trouble with the chemotherapy with

nausea, vomiting and very severe depression.” His doctors

were puzzled that he had so little in the way of side effects

from most of the treatments. D.P. said he also felt extremely

fatigued and spent a great deal of time in bed when he would

take the chemotherapy treatment without having had

photooxidation.

D.P. lost his hair, as always happens with chemotherapy, and

his toenails turned purplish and dropped off. These were the

only physical signs of chemotherapy toxicity, other than

fatigue, that he noticed during the entire treatment.

Seven weeks after the first CT scan, another was done, and

much to the amazement of his physicians, the tumor mass had

completely resolved. There was absolutely no evidence of

cancer being present. Granted, the patient was on

chemotherapy, but I think any qualified doctor would admit

that this was a truly remarkable result. D.P. told his doctors

that he had been taking peroxide and photoluminescence, and

they replied, “Well perhaps it’s a result of both his therapy

and ours.” (And they may be right.) Four and a half months

later, in late August or early September, D.P. had a repeat

CAT scan, and, again everything was completely normal with

no evidence of any tumor.

D.P. lost 26 pounds in the hospital. By October 1989, he had

gained back all of that weight and put on some additional

pounds. He felt vigorous and healthy and is now more

concerned about keeping his weight down than keeping it up.

Along with his peroxide treatments, D.P. also received

photoluminescence on a daily basis. Both therapies should be

given for maximum results in treating cancer. A series of

cases needs to be done with peroxide alone,

photoluminescence alone, and the combination of the two, to

determine the relative effectiveness of the two therapies.

An additional note on patient D.P. He continues to thrive and

work full-time, although he is in his 70’s, and shows no

evidence whatsoever at this time (four years after diagnosis)

of ever having had cancer.

One final note on cancer: Skin cancer, a very common

problem in our modern society, is attributed to ultraviolet

light by conventional medical authorities. Whereas it has

been shown in Australia, and other areas of very high light

intensity, that skin cancer is more common among office

workers that it is among those who work in the sunlight.

The AIDS Pandemic

Most scientists will concede that in AIDS the world is facing

the worst disease pandemic in its history. Not only is it the

greatest biological threat mankind has ever faced, but because

of the uniqueness of the AIDS virus, conventional therapies,

such as vaccines or chemotherapeutic agents, are very

unlikely to stop the epidemic and the continued devastation of

the human race.

However, photoluminescence appears to do precisely what is

needed to stymie the AIDS virus, and thus may be the perfect

solution, even though we don’t fully understand the problem.

Most people don’t care what the mechanics of stopping AIDS

are (do you care how your car works?), they just care that

AIDS be stopped. For them, our successes in Africa get to the

bottom line – photoluminescence works on AIDS.

A visitor to a major African city recently had a startling

experience when he was taken out to dinner by his host, a

physician at the local university hospital. Nearly everyone in

the city’s best restaurant seemed to know the physician and

greeted him enthusiastically – not just the other patrons, who

were businessmen, lawyers, and government officials – but

also the entire staff of the restaurant. Waiters tripped over

each other to make him welcome. Finally, as his guest looked

at him in puzzlement at the obsequious display, the doctor

leaned over and explained in a confidential tone: “They’re all

my patients, they all have AIDS.”

Just imagine; not only the employees, but all the patrons in

the restaurant were carrying the AIDS virus. And that’s just

one restaurant in one city. Health systems in equatorial Africa

have become essentially immobilized and panicked by the

total chaos and overwhelming burden of the AIDS pandemic;

the horror of this deadly disease is rapidly enveloping them;

their statistics are unreliable; a good deal of the scientific

study is highly suspect; and some countries have taken the

road of denial rather than diagnosis in order to protect what

little tourism, and consequently income, they have left. But

even those countries that clearly recognizes what they’re

facing are helpless to do much about it. They have few

laboratories, hospitals, sterile supplies, little experience in treating this type of epidemic and a disastrous lack of medical

infrastructure.

One gets the true import of the tragedy in Africa when it is

realized that some countries only have one doctor for every

25,000 people, and the average expenditure on health is $10

per person per year. Just the test to confirm a single suspected

case of HIV infection now costs about $20. Another way of

grasping the seriousness of the situation is to compare

expenditures in the United States with those in patients in a

hospital in the United States, some $450,000, is more than the

entire annual budget of a large hospital in Zaire.

This was the scene in Africa when we arrived there to begin

our AIDS treatment program. And though our endeavor was

small in size, it was very big in potential. Our hope was to

find in photoluminescence the means to eventually arrest the

spread of AIDS throughout this vast continent and to relieve

the suffering of millions of people who already had the

dreaded disease.

We stayed for eight weeks and treated many patients. But

when we left, we felt we had confirmed the hopes we had for

photoluminescent therapy. It had performed well in too many

cases to be dismissed as a fluke. As usual, no adverse side

effects accompanied the treatment, and many lives were

prolonged – some indefinitely. It offered very real hope to the

millions of suffering and dying in the continent of Africa –

and now, I hope, to the rest of the world.

No one can predict the future, but we all like to try. I predict

that 20 years from now, and perhaps sooner because of the

AIDS epidemic, photo-oxidative medicine will be the

mainstay in medicine and replace many of the toxic, useless

drugs that are used today. There will always be a place for

drugs, but I think almost everyone in the medical profession

today admits that they are now overused and abused.

Killer Toxins Killed

One of the many useful aspects of light is its deadly effect on

toxins. Toxins are poisonous substances, such as animal

(snake or scorpion venom), or bacterial (strep, botulin,

tetanus, etc.) poisons. Exposure of such toxins to light

quickly deactivates them. The potential health benefits from

this phenomenon are incalculable.

This anti-toxin effect of light has been known for over 100

years. Early research, done the 1800s, paved the way for the

critically important early 20th century work in the treatment

of such toxins as tetanus and botulism. So totally does the

light deactivate toxins that no one need die of a rattlesnake

bite, tetanus, botulism or rabies if phototherapy was available.

It is depressing to contemplate the number of people who

have died from botulism, tetanus, rabies, gas gangrene,

snakebite, and other toxins because of the abandonment of

this incredibly safe and effective detoxifying therapy.

Most bacteria kill by producing a toxin. The Staphylococcus,

the typhoid germ, tetanus, gas gangrene, and the organism of

plague, Ursinia pestis, all kill at least partially through the

effect of very potent toxins produced by the organisms.

Toxin neutralization is quite a remarkable and mysterious

action of ultraviolet light therapy. For instance, patients with tetanus,

botulism, and snake venom (both the hemolytic –

blood-destroying, such as rattlesnake venom-and to some

extent neurotoxic – nerve destroying, such as cobra venom –

varieties) can be neutralized by photoluminescent treatment of

the blood. Even the most deadly of snakes, such as the fer-delance

and the deadly tropical rattlesnake (whose bite is nearly 100 percent fatal),

could be neutralized by ultraviolet therapy if administered in time.

But these more venomous snakes are what are known as “two steppers”.

Treatment with ultraviolet light is difficult when the victims are dead

after taking two steps.

Through incidences of botulism (a deadly form of food

poisoning) have declined with modern advances in food

preparation and refrigeration, most people are still aware of

how serious it is. Every now and then someone gets poisoned

by some food prone to producing botulinum bacteria and

becomes violently ill. Every time it happens, we are

reminded of the extreme toxicity of this form of bacteria.

However, photoluminescence is very effective in treating

botulism. One of the most easily demonstrable clinical effects

of blood irradiation is the alleviation of toxic symptoms

within 24 to 72 hours after treatment.

For instance, one extreme case involved a patient who was

unable to swallow or see at the time of irradiation. Within 48

hours, the patient, who obviously was dying from the wellknown

effects of the classic botulinum neurotoxin, was able to swallow

and see and was completely clear mentally.

Thirteen days after a single blood irradiation treatment, she

left the hospital in excellent condition and remained so.

Chapter 4

Case Studies by the Pioneers

The worth of any therapy is truly in its results on patients, not

on the blackboards at medical school or the pages of books.

So one of the best things to do with regard to photoluminescence

is to look at its’ record. It has been used

so often, with such uniformly beneficial results, that its record

on patients is the best possible testimonial to its efficacy.

Thanks to the pioneers of this therapy, thousands of

successful cases are available for study. Following are a few

of them.

The Cases of Henry A. Barrett, M.D.

Dr. Barrett reported on 110 cases of ultraviolet light therapy

in 1940. Of those 110 patients, some received only one

treatment and others as many as eight. The report indicated

that outstanding results were often obtained with a single

irradiation, but sometimes no improvement was noted until

more had been received. Most of Dr. Barrett’s cases had not

responded to any other type of treatment. He felt that his

statistics would have been better had several patients no

become discouraged after not improving on the first treatment

and so discontinued the therapy. Barrett remarked that in

conventional therapy one does not expect to observe any

appreciable change in a patient’s condition in under 12 hours,

and often not until several days after initiation of therapy. But

with hemo-irradiation, he noted patients suffering from

rheumatoid arthritis improved, remarkably, within a few

hours.

One of his patients came to him for a condition completely

unrelated to her arthritis, but after three treatments said her

arthritis cleared completely. She had come for treatment of

her night sweats, which had necessitated a change of linen

three and four times a night. This condition also cleared after

the third hemo-irradiation treatment.

An illustration of the remarkably wide efficacy of ultraviolet

treatment involved a patient referred for chronic inflammation

of the eyelid. The patient had been treated by an eye

specialist for tow years with absolutely no positive result.

Barrett initiated ultraviolet irradiation therapy and the

inflammation cleared in less than a week.

Dr. Barrett describes another quite remarkable case:

In March of this year, one of my associates in this

investigation assisted me in the irradiation of a patient

suffering from bronchial asthma of four years duration. The

patient, aged 45, had been in the hospital for several weeks

and, in spite of all medication, was having several attacks

daily. During the irradiation she had two attacks. Her doctor

reported the next that she had had only one attack in 24 hours.

After that, she had an occasional relapse, but not more than

two or three a week. The attacks became fewer and fewer and

have been entirely absent for several months.

Some of Dr. Barrett’s results were truly astounding. A patient

with mastoiditis had been ill for 19 days. X-rays showed “a

four-plus mastoid infection with cavitation.” She refused an

operation but consented to hemo-irradiation. Without surgical

intervention, this degree of mastoid infection would ordinarily

lead to meningitis, brain abscess, and death. But she was

back at work in six days, entirely symptom-free and remained

so thereafter. Dr. Cecil Rountree remarked many years ago on

the effectiveness of ultraviolet treatment (“sunlight treatment, real

or artificial”). He noted that extra-pulmonary tuberculosis

(beyond the lungs) such as bone tuberculosis, cleared very

nicely, without drastic surgery, with complete rest and a great

deal of sunlight. This method “almost always effects a cure in

every case,” he said.

Tuberculosis is still a common scourge in most tropical

countries in spite of an abundance of sunlight (black skin

absorbs light poorly). Ultraviolet blood irradiation, far more

effective than simply irradiating the skin, will be a great boon

to Africa, Asia and Latin America in treating this debilitating

and often fatal disease.

The Cases of Dr. George P. Miley

Researching in the 1930s and ‘40s, Dr. Miley reported some

interesting cases which he said resulted in “meager but

stimulating observations.” His observations were not meager

at all, but were certainly stimulation.

For instance, in 11 patients suffering from severe and

intractable furunculosis (boils) of up to six years duration, he

noted a complete subsidence of the acute stages of the disease

and a lack of recurrences after two to four blood irradiation

treatments given at two to five week intervals. One of these

patients had suffered from the daily appearance of 40 to 60

new boils for years. This patient, after only four blood irradiations,

had a complete subsidence of his disease. He

was placed on a maintenance dose of two to three blood

irradiations a year.

Miley presented a rare case of “double septicemia” in which

blood cultures were found to be positive for both

streptococcus and a colon bacillus following a prostate

operation. This patient was obviously in deep trouble and

was going to die. Antibiotics had not been effective.

Three blood photoluminescent treatments were given at 48-

hour intervals. Forty-eight hours after the first treatment, the

blood cultures became negative, i.e., the bacteria could no

longer be recovered from the blood. This proved to be only

temporary. The streptococcus infection disappeared

permanently, but the colon bacteria reappeared in the blood

just before a third blood irradiation was given. The patient’s

temperature rose to 106.8 degrees F. Following the third

irradiation, the patient’s condition improved greatly and blood

irradiation treatments were continued.

It was interesting to note that blood cultures continued to be

positive with the colon bacillus for three days following the

last treatment, even though the patient continued to improve.

The patient progressed without any further complications and

was discharged from the hospital feeling perfectly well, with

all blood tests and cultures within normal limits.

The second case was a blood infection from a colon bacillus

secondary to an acute infection of the urinary bladder. When

the patient was first see, she had been in a coma for 40 hours.

Her blood cultures had been positive for 13 days with a

temperature that had reached the astronomical level of 108.0

degrees.

Forty-eight hours after the initial hemo-irradiation, the blood

cultures became negative and the patient’s toxic symptoms

rapidly subsided. Ninety-eight hours after starting treatment,

the temperature was back to normal and the patient was

feeling perfectly well. This patient surely would have died

without photoluminescent therapy.

The third case was streptococcus blood poisoning

(septicemia), again with an astronomically high temperature.

The septicemia was secondary to an ear infection (otitis

media). When first seen, the patient had been in a coma for

two day, and the temperature had reached 108.2 degrees.

Forty-eight hours after the initial blood irradiation, the blood

culture became negative, but 72 hours later, the blood culture

was positive again. The patient began to deteriorate, so a

second blood irradiation was given. Within 48 hours, blood

cultures were again negative. The patient recovered with no

further problems.

The fourth case was blood poisoning following a Cesarean

section operation. At the time the patient was first seen, she

had undergone 22 days of intensive antibiotic therapy, which

had not stopped the infection. Twenty-four hours after her

first treatment, the blood cultures became negative, and 48

hours later, the patient was free of all symptoms for the first

time in 26 days.

The last case history is one of an incomplete septic abortion (a

miscarriage with only partial expulsion of the fetus and the

placenta) with infection in all the female organs. The patient

was moribund when first seen and had a temperature of 106.4

degrees. Despite eight days of intensive antibiotic therapy,

she had gotten worse. On the first day after her ultraviolet

irradiation, her temperature dropped precipitously and her toxic

symptoms began to subside. Forty-eight hours later, her

detoxification was complete. The patient had completely

recovered, without any further treatment, nine days after

beginning her blood irradiation.

The Rebbeck Studies

Dr. E. W. Rebbeck was another of the great pioneers of

ultraviolet light therapy. After years of practicing this

treatment in Pennsylvania, he was able to report:

If the conception of septicemia is the presence of

pathogenic organisms in a patient’s blood plus septic

symptoms, then seven patients with Escherichia coli

(E. coli.) septicemia (a fecal contamination of the

blood) have been successfully treated in the

Shadyside Hospital by the Knott technique of

ultraviolet irradiation of blood.

The rationale of blood irradiation therapy is based on

accepted biophysical effects of ultraviolet rays,

chiefly those of detoxification and inactivation of

bacteria, toxins and viruses. From a clinical point of

view, any therapeutic measure that raises the patient’s

resistance to infection – should be useful as an

adjunct in the treatment of infections.

The physical principle that any substance which is

capable of absorbing ultraviolet rays (such as blood is

known to be) gives off secondary emanations, would

explain the ultimate destruction of bacteria in the

blood. The commonly seen detoxifying action of

ultraviolet rays, as reported in the references cited,

explains the beneficial effect of this therapy in

helping to overcome infection. This Rebbeck report of 1943

concerned the treatment of E. coli septicemia. He reported on

eight cases, out of which six lived – a success rate far beyond

what could have been expected at that time from the use of sulfa drugs.

The amazing thermolytic (temperature-lowering) effect of

ultraviolet blood irradiation on the body is well-illustrated by

Rebbeck’s studies on E. coli septicemia. Let’s look briefly at

three of his more sensational cases:

“Mr. B.” was a white man, age 76, who was

admitted to Shadyside Hospital complaining of pain

on urination, frequency of urination, and,

occasionally, an inability to urinate. Laboratory

studies revealed that he had a 19,750 white count

(normal is 5,000 to 10,000). A suprapubic

cystotomy was performed and his condition

remained stable for a few days; a suprapubic

prostatectomy was then performed. He did well after

those surgeries, but then developed a chill and his

temperature rose rapidly to 105.8 degrees.

At that time, he was given his first photoluminescent

treatment. A dramatic, immediate drop in his

temperature was noted. It fell from 105.8 to 98.6. In

the next few days, this dramatic response to

ultraviolet blood irradiation was repeated a number

of times. After the third dramatic therolytic event,

his temperature gradually returned to normal and

stayed within normal limits.

With a urinary catheter change on day 40, he again

had a high temperature for two consecutive days.

Following another hemo-irradiation treatment, his temperature

rapidly plunged back to normal. After

ten days he was discharged, having recovered

completely from this serious illness without the use

of any antibiotics.

An equally dramatic case of bilateral pyelonephritis

was reported by Rebbeck. The infection, E. coli, had

entered the bloodstream. The patient was given a

total of 15 blood irradiations. He was also given

sulfa drugs (discontinued because of side effects),

sodium iodide, and intravenous aspirin.

The patient had an extremely stormy course with

days of delirium, marked toxemia and intense pain

and tenderness over both kidneys. After the first

irradiation, the kidney pain practically disappeared.

Although the patient was considered hopeless by his

attending physicians, after 25 days he was

discharged completely well. As could be seen from

his temperature charts, phototherapy never failed to

improve his condition, and his life was undoubtedly

spared by Rebbeck’s treatment.

Rebbeck’s most dramatic case was one of

pyelonephritis in which the temperature “went

through the roof.”

After a cystoscopic examination, the patient’s

temperature quickly rose to 109 degrees. The

patient’s pulse rate was 140; she had pain in her

joints and felt extremely weak, lethargic, and

apprehensive. She began to vomit blood, and it was

felt that she almost certainly would die.  Blood irradiation

therapy was instituted, and, again, as in his previous cases,

a dramatic fall in temperature and marked clinical improvement

was noted. After a dew more days she was brighter, her

chills had ceased, all toxic symptoms were gone, and

she was well on her way to recovery. This woman

was saved literally by a few pennies’ worth of

electricity.

Rebbeck commented on these cases:

There have been no signs of harmful effects in

approximately 4,000 blood irradiation treatments

under my direct supervision at Shadyside Hospital in

the past five years. If one looks at the overall picture

of serious infections and realizes that accepted

methods of therapy fall far short of producing

consistently good results, one appreciates that there is

room for any logical harmless type of therapy such as

the ultraviolet irradiation of the blood of patients…

The reason I persisted and continued work in blood irradiation

therapy for five years, in spite of much opposition and

criticism from the medical profession in the city of Pittsburgh,

was because of the result obtained with my mother. She had

(bronchial) asthma for many years, fairly well controlled by

expert treatment.

However, in early summer, 1937, she started with

uncontrollable attacks which lasted for over three months.

Typically, she would go to bed around midnight, sleep for

maybe one to one and a half hours and then awaken with

severe wheezing and coughing, with great shortness of breath and

no expectoration, and spent the rest of the time sitting up

for a measure of relief. Mother had ultraviolet blood

irradiation treatment in late September 1937. That same

evening she slept for five hours and, when she did awaken,

she was able to expectorate bronchial exudate. She had three

treatments a week apart. Within about 10 days the asthma

was completely gone and has not returned.

Chapter 5

Conclusion

Ultraviolet therapy has proven to be an immensely valuable

gift to mankind for the prevention and alleviation of many

diseases and for the maintenance of sound health. But a gift

must be received to be of any use to the intended beneficiary.

Unfortunately, such reception – on any widespread basis remains

in the future. The operational strength of

photoluminescence is its administrative weakness. As a

curative agent, it requires little sophisticated equipment, no

complicated drugs, and it cures by stimulation the body’s own

immune response (the key to light therapy’s versatility). Such

a medical breakthrough, while a windfall for the ailing public,

is a death knell for some members of the medical

establishment – money is the consumer’s pocket is money

that never makes it to the medical-industrial complex.

Indeed, antibiotics are miraculous and have been a boon to

mankind. But they are only for the elite, as most people in the

world cannot, and never will be able to, afford them.

If one looks through medical journals today, it is obvious that

doctor’s minds are under the control of the pharmaceutical

companies. There are literally hundreds of thousands of

dollars worth of advertising in practically every issue of every

medical journal. These tens of millions of dollars spent by the

drug industry are not expended for altruistic purposes. It has

been estimated that the drug companies spend more money

brainwashing doctors on drugs that is spent yearly on

educating all the doctors in the nation.

Ultraviolet therapy represents a tremendous threat to the legal

international drug cartel, and for that reason, it has been

suppressed. There will be vicious infighting and cries of

quackery when this booklet is published, and there will be a

concerted effort to ignore it – or destroy it.

However, with the recrudescence of huge army of infectious

diseases, and with the rapid deterioration of the effectiveness

of many of the standard antibiotics, this conspiracy of silence

will be broken; and ultraviolet irradiation –

photoluminescence –will have its second day in court. The

fact that the treatment is effective against toxins and viruses,

where antibiotics are essentially useless, makes it all the more

certain that extracorporeal ultraviolet irradiation will take its

place in the forefront of treatment in the late 20th century.

In spite of the billions of dollars spent on research,

development, and marketing of antibiotics, myriads of strains

of bacteria, some old and some new, are threatening the health

and the very lives of people all over the world, including the

United States. Lethal viruses continue to prey on the human

race and are rapidly increasing in virulence as more deadly

viruses follow AIDS into the medical scene.

There exists in the medical profession today an almost total

ignorance of ultraviolet therapy. When the subject is

mentioned, it almost always draws an antagonistic response.

The neglect of this procedure is certainly one of the century’s

great tragedies. Untold deaths and much suffering could have

been averted in ultraviolet therapy had not been largely

abandoned after the discovery of penicillin.

A dramatic example is that of Jim Henson, the creator of the

Muppets, whose sudden death in 1990 shocked millions of

children and adults who shared a special fondness for his

wonderful puppet creations. Henson was healthy and had an

uneventful medical history, yet he contracted pneumonia and

died two days after being admitted to the hospital. Being in

the prime of life, Henson did not die of the streptococcus

pneumonia for which he was admitted. The bacterial

infection to which he succumbed – a particularly virulent

strain of group A Streptococcus – causes a newly recognized

syndrome called toxic shock –like syndrome (TSLS), that can

fell otherwise healthy people within hours of the onset of

symptoms. It was astounding and very unsettling to have a

healthy Jim Henson die within three days of falling ill.

This lethal bacterium, which responds to none of the available

antibiotics, has spread around the world and surfaced in

England, Scandinavia, Australia, East Germany, Canada and

New Zealand, as well as the United States. Scientists are

bewildered as to why this organism, which ordinarily causes

strep throat in children, is suddenly causing an acute fatal

disease in adults.

The importance of the Henson case from the standpoint of this

booklet is that what killed Jim Henson was the virulent toxin

produced by the Streptococcus A organism. This toxin will

not respond to any antibiotic. So even if the antibiotics have

killed the organisms present, Henson would still have died

from the toxin produced by the organism. Treat tragedy is

that photoluminescent therapy will immediately neutralize

such toxins, but was never used.

One of the obstacles to this treatment will be its very wide

spectrum of therapeutic usefulness. The old adage is, “If it works

for everything it works for nothing.” Generally

speaking, this is true; but in the case of photooxidative

medicine, it is not true. As you’ve seen from the case

histories, it is indeed a broad-spectrum treatment, and there

are very few diseases for which it is not worth, at least

initially, a try.

Chapter 6

Epilogue

Now that you have read the preceding chapters regarding the

almost miraculous benefits of photoluminescence, particularly

in treating infectious disease, you are probably impatiently

asking, What is being done to make this treatment available

today?

If you are one of the millions of people with a loved one

suffering from hepatitis, viral pneumonia, meningitis, AIDS,

or a dozen other killer diseases – or, God forbid, you suffer

from one of these ailments yourself - that question is not of

just academic interest. It could literally be a matter of life or

death to you.

It is my fervent hope that publication of The Healing Power

of Light and Into the Light will help speed the day when

photoluminescence is readily available throughout the world.

And I am pleased to report that much is being done right now

to help bring that day to pass.

Since returning from Russia, I have been invited to address

two of the most important organizations of alternative

physicians in the United States about my experiences with

photoluminescence. In both instances, the audience was eager

to learn more.

In the past 24 months, I have traveled to Europe, Africa,

North America, and the Caribbean, to meet with physicians and

alternative therapists who expressed interest in learning

about this remarkable healer.

Yes, word is getting out! Some doctors are listening to us …

some brave medical groups are looking into this incredible

therapy. I hope we will soon be able to announce that some

brave and pioneering physicians in the United States will

offer photoluminescence treatments in their own practices, as

part of an officially sanctioned study by an investigative

review board.

As there is news to report, I’ll do so in the pages of my

monthly newsletter, Second Opinion. If you are not already a

subscriber, I urge you to become one. Send $49 for a oneyear

subscription (foreign subscribers, add $13 a year for air

mail delivery) to Second Opinion Publishing,, P.O. Box

467939, Atlanta, Georgia 31146-7939 or call 800-728-2288

or 770-399-5617.

In the meantime, one of the most important things you can do

is to encourage others to learn more about this remarkable

therapy – including any doctors you know who are openminded

enough to listen.

Loan them your copy of The Healing Power of Light. Better

yet, urge them to buy a copy of my book Into the Light for

themselves; that way, they will be much more likely to read it.

In conclusion, let me thank you for bearing with me for these

pages, as I tried to explain a revolutionary therapy that is

really decades old. I have spent more than 10 years of my life

confirming the almost miraculous results of  photoluminescence.

I was so eager to see it in widespread use that I endured a lifestyle

that would be unbearable for most Americans – an Arctic winter in

St. Petersburg, Russia. I’ll never forget living working with those

wonderful, warm, and courageous people who are just beginning to

recover from the devastation from 70 years of communist tyranny.

May God bless them all. As for me, I wouldn’t change a

minute of it.

William Campbell Douglass, M.D.

October, 1995