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Correcting an Inaccurate Paradigm on
Cellular Functions - Technical Version
by Perry A. Chapdelaine, Sr., M.A. and
Perry A. Chapdelaine, Jr., M.D., M.PH.
The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation for
the Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease
AKA The Arthritis Trust of America
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/The Rheumatoid Disease
Foundation, 7376 Walker Road, Fairview, Tn 37062
A Revolution in the Physiology of the
Living Cell
by Gilbert N. Ling, Ph.D.
Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, USA;
ISBN 0-89464-398-3; 378 pages, hardcover, 1992, $64.50
Gilbert N. Ling, Ph.D.
Dr. Ling’s Scientific Background
Dr. Ling graduated from National Central University in
Chungking, China, also winning the biology slot of what is known
as the Boxer scholarship, an important gift by America to China in
the wake of the Boxer rebellion. Enrolling in National Tsing Hua
University in Kunming, he roomed with C.N. Yang who, with T.D.
Lee, was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1957.
Admiring the “holistic” approach taken by Ralph W. Gerard
(“The Unresting Cell” Harper, 1940), Ling approached Dr. Gerard
at the famous University of Chicago Department of Physiology to
be accepted as a graduate student.
Later Ling received his first laboratory position at the Wilmer
Institute of Ophthalmolgy, John Hopkins Medical School in Balti-
more, where Ling was permitted to pursue his own direction of
research.
When Gerard moved to the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the
University of Illinois, Ling followed, now having available a well-
designed research laboratory, also designed by Ling.
In 1957 Ling accepted a position at the newly inaugurated
Department of Basic Research at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychi-
atric Institute in Philadelphia. Here Ling continued his work on his
growing Association-Induction hypothesis.
Through the efforts of Pennsylvania Hospital’s neurologist,
Frank Elliott, M.D., the John A. Hartford Foundation (founded by
the A and P estate) provided funds for constructing on the ground of
the Pennsylvania Hospital a new laboratory. During the next 27
years Ling’s Association-Induction hypothesis of cellular function
was put to extensive worldwide tests.
Termination of Ling’s research grant resulted in another move,
including Ling’s entire laboratory, to Melville, New York, Damadian
Foundation for Basic and Cancer Research, (% Fonar Corporation)
a rescue performed by Ling’s friend, Raymond Damadian.All physi-
ological systems considered by the health professional, in small or
large, must begin at the cellular level. It’s a basic truism that the
manner in which each cell functions and behaves under differing
environments, including cooperative relationships between adjoin-
ing and remotely located cells, determines the functioning of each
organ and each system.
Consequences of Faulty Cellular Models
A model that describes cellular functions and their relation-
ships in error will cascade inoperative medical techniques through-
out medical literature. Such accumulated paradigm errors often
reach patients producing ill health and death. There are countless
examples throughout medical history where faulty premises or theo-
ries have brought about drastic negative consequences.
In describing potential causes for rheumatoid disease and can-
cer, Roger Wyburn-Mason, M.D., Ph.D. listed two widespread,
faulty medical paradigms.
Tuberculosis was once defined in terms of 100 different dis-
eases, depending upon which part of the body symptoms appeared.
Of course, treatments usually took on weird and obscure rationale
when attempting to solve each of these different appearing symp-
toms. Then the tubercule bacillus was discovered, and all of those
100 names collapsed, now being named TB of the lung, TB of the
spine, TB of the skin, and so on. Rational treatments took hold,
and, for many years, reduced the tuberculosis problem.
As is now true for rheumatoid diseases, syphilis was once
described as a classical auto-immune disease -- until discovery of
the spirochete.
Let’s consider our grand fight against cancer, whose 26th birth-
day was celebrated December 23, 1997. Legislation on that date 26
years ago created the unprecedented multi-billion dollar govern-
ment-private sector alliance known as the “War on Cancer.” It was
signed by President Nixon in 1971, six months before the Watergate
break-in.
I hate “everyone knows,” but this is one time the generality is
fully justified, for everyone knows that billions have been spent on
faulty treatments based on faulty paradigms, and there seems no
way to halt this powerful, destructive engine.
Professor Alfred Burger, University of Virginia, wrote in his
monumental treatise, Medicinal Chemistry, (pg 19, 2nd ed.), “Al-
most all the problems of medicinal chemistry would become more
amenable if we had even an inkling of the reaction of any drug with
body chemicals. . . . “
Could this be so because the theory of the living cell -- seat of
body chemicals -- taught in all medical schools to this day is wrong?
Dr. Gilbert Ling is a world-class scientist, who has spent a life-
time researching cellular functions, also collaborating with top-rank-
ing scientists, and producing peer-reviewed literature that ranks
among the highest.
His book, A Revolution in the Physiology of the Living Cell,
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