(9) Chemistry's Miraculous
ColloidsReader's Digest
March
1936
by Kenneth Andrews
A group
of executives sat tense and silent in an office in the RCA Building in
New York City. They stared with incredulous eyes at a purple orchid. A
short time before it had been rescued from a pile of debris, a
withered, yellowed thing, dead. Now the petals were fresh and crisp,
its colors vivid. It was blooming with new life, and would continue to
do so for 16 or 17 days!
Dr.
Frederick S. Macy, one of the country outstanding bacteriologists, had
added a teaspoonful of an amber tinted liquid to the quart of water in
the bottle which held the flower. Here was striking indication of the
mysteries that lie ahead in that comparatively unexplored realm of
science known as colloidal chemistry. It was one of innumerable
experiments these gentlemen had been witnessing for a year or more, on
behalf of their internationally known pharmaceutical company.
A few
days later they signed an 8-year contract for the rights to a solution
similar to the one in Dr. Macy's bottle. They will invest more than
$12,000,000 a year in it, from now on.
To gain
a working conception of what colloidal chemistry is, consider that
living tissues and organs are simply great masses of cells-billions of
them. The energy, the very life force of these cells, is obtained from
certain minerals and metal, among them iron, iodine, manganese,
copper.
There are some 32, with traces of as many others, in the human body.
Colloidal chemistry is the science which converts those elements into
particles so minute that they can be utilized by living cells.
Normally, nature supplies the cells with these elements in their
colloidal form. Science has now learned to produce these colloids in
the laboratory. "Lately, life has been prolonged by colloid action,"
says Dr. Macy, "and better knowledge of the subject will certainly
result in prolonging the normal term of existence.!"
In the case of the apparently dead orchid, copper in colloidal form
was needed to restore the proper balance of the mineral and metals
that comprised the life cells of the flower. Once that balance was
restored, the cells began to function and the orchid lived again.
In the Colloidal Laboratories of America they have a motion picture
which is as weird as anything ever shown on a screen- a movie of a
headache. The actors are the nerves in a human head, magnified
millions of times. You see the headache. Those nerve endings are
tangled, twisting, writhing. Then you see the colloids enter. These
rescuers, smaller than the blood corpuscles themselves, march straight
to the spot where there is an unbalance of the vital metals.
You see
those laboratory-prepared colloids restore normalcy there at the seat
of the trouble. Then you see the nerves cease their twisting, relax,
and assume their proper position. Dr. Steinmetz, the wizard of
electricity, devised a method of utilizing colloids in the treatment
of sinus trouble.
Such
treatment consists of the introduction of metals - gold and iodine, in
the case of alcoholism - which correct the unbalance caused by
alcoholic poisons. The effect of colloids is explainable in part by
electric action. Sick and dead and broken-down cells are attracted to
the colloids by electromagnetic force, as iron filings are attracted
to a magnet. The colloids carry those decayed or poisonous
substances into the blood stream, and they are eliminated, the system
meanwhile adapting what it needs of the colloids. A simple
illustration will suggest the immense powers that are being unsealed.
Suppose we have a cube of iron measuring one inch sq. The total
surface would be six square inches. The electrical charge is on the
surface would be limited to that of 6 sq. in.; the greater the surface
area, the greater the charge; and if we divide the cube of iron into
smaller pieces we increase the surface areas. By colloidal chemistry,
that iron cube can be divided into particles so minute that they are
invisible, hence instead of six square inches of surface emanating
electric energy, we have something like 127 acres.
In colloidal form iodine, for example, is one of the elements
essential to the well-being of human cells. Yet if you should drink as
much as two or three grains of free iodine, it would kill you. Dr.
Macy, when explaining this, held up an eight-ounce cup full of
colloidal iodine. "There," he said, "is the equivalent of 740 grains
of free iodine - enough to kill 300 people" and he drank it.
In that
form iodine is not only harmless but beneficial. The same is true of
arsenic and other deadly poisons.
Colloidal chemistry was evolved by David Graham, a British chemist, 50
years ago, but only recently has it been realized even by scientists,
what enormous influence it is destined to have in medicine,
agriculture and industry.
"We
have television now," one of the world's greatest scholars said
recently. "There is, as I see it, just one great development left for
our time. That is in the understanding of colloidal metals. It is the
'Fourth Estate of Matter,' the other three being land, water, and
air."
Says Dr. Macy:
"The study of these phenomena constitutes the road to the ultimate in
human knowledge."
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