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Modern Theories on the Constitution of Matter and Force in Relation to Vital Phenomena

Istituto Radiologico Mauriziano, Torino, Italy

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The treatment of this question forms one chapter of the Compandio di Terapia Fisica which is being published with the collaboration of various ltalian therapeutists. The author briefly re-assumes the fundamental hypotheses belonging to the constitution of matter and force, with special reference to present knowledge of the structure of man and of the phenomena which take place whenever variations of his electronical equilibrium occur. When X rays are generated these variations assume particular importance and the author in a rapid synthesis illustrates what relations exist between the various electrons in the fundamental atomic model of Rutherford—Bohr Sommerfeld, and which processes may determine the emission of the various primary and characteristic rays.

Analogous properties are found in radioactive substances, properties which demonstrate the intimate connection existing between matter and force; and re-affirm the fundamental hypothesis of the instability of matter, which, in more or less ample cycles tends to decompose itself progressively from the most complex elements to the most elementary (helio-hydrogen).