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Observations on Bacillus Typhosus in its Filterable State
The paper co-authored by Rife and a sitting Northwestern University bacteriology chair, describing observations of the filterable form of B. typhosus under the Rife microscope. Includes the 1930 photograph of Rife at his instrument. Three pages, complete.
The New Microscopes
The long-form account of the Rife Universal Microscope and its optical system, published by one of America's oldest applied-science journals and reprinted the same year by the Smithsonian. Twenty-seven pages plus five plates, complete, from the public-domain Smithsonian scan.
Verified at the source
These are real and citable, but held behind a journal paywall or a federal archive rather than reproduced here. Each link goes to the authoritative record.
Observations with the Rife Microscope of Filter-Passing Forms of Micro-organisms
A report in the flagship journal of American science by a senior Mayo Foundation researcher. The full text sits behind the AAAS paywall; the record and abstract are public.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1944
The complete 572-page federal volume that contains the “New Microscopes” reprint (pp. 193–219). Free to read or download in full.
Arthur Isaac Kendall — Northwestern University Medical School
Confirmation of Rife's co-author's academic standing — the institutional fact most often left out of casual dismissals.
The Milbank Johnson Committee
Honesty matters here: the committee is described in historical accounts, but its primary files did not survive Milbank Johnson's death in 1944. We present it as documented by secondary history, not as an archivally verified record — and we would rather tell you that plainly than overstate it.
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