The
arrival in Bordeaux
1943
: By the time the Second World War is over, a young Italian
prisoner is transferred to a huge submarine basis in Bordeaux by the
German authority. He is thirty years old. His name is Antoine Priore.
He is radioelectrician.
Born in Trieste in 1912, he has a diploma in radio electricity with
the level of a good technician, as his time knew how to do it : few
theory and an immense « know how ».
During
the war, in 1942, appointed to a station of radar and transmissions
in the Italian Navy, he notes that oranges being exposed to electromagnetic
fields of his emitters do not go mouldy : that will be his fundamental
experience!
From
this time, he tries to reproduce these results to construct an appliance,
which is able to preserve fruits and vegetables. In these times the
refrigerator was an almost unknown stuff.
In
this way, an Italian Prisoner, remembers Priore, submits several vegetables
to different currents-without any success.
In
captivity he was appointed to the demagnetisation of submarines by enormous
electric fields. Later, he will draw out of it some elements for his
theories.
Some
weeks before the liberation, he escapes thanks to the information of
a superintendent friend and takes part in the liberation struggles with
the resistance from which he will keep some strong and useful friendships
with policemen, politicians and with members of the army.
Soon,
he finds two jobs, one in repairing radios and another as a projectionist.
Because of his work he doesn’t have much spare time to finalize
some different inventions, liable to convert them into cash. In spite
of this fact, we can find marks of a protection system for the TSF stations;
an automatic system for the headlights of a car « verifying the
theory of the possibility of light waves » !!, an automatic siren
to warn the driver who is unable to hear well, without mentioning a
control of tire pressure with changeable resistance etc.
This
list of finds for an improbable posterity can make us smile, in any
case it testifies an original and fertile mind. A journalist says :
« Mr Priore is continuously fixed on something concrete ; as soon
as finds a next principle he searches for its immediate application
; unlike Poincarre, a relentless theorist, Mr Priore discovers and applies
at the same time, turning always to the concrete. » Priore against
Poincarre ! Beyond the enthusiasm of the reporter appears an exceptional
pragmatism of the inventor, constantly overlooking his theoretical misery.
First
tests
His
experience in preserving oranges obsesses him. Day after day, in the
small workshop of his employer, also in the room he rents, he puts together
the equipments he found in the flourishing surplus shops of the post-war
period. He wants to make an apparatus to preserve food, based on a mixture
of electromagnetic waves.
Dr
Marfaing, his physician, dates his results around 1948-1950 : »
Once at night he called me : he was dancing with excitement and showed
me a perfectly preserved piece of meat. » So, with his rudimentary
appliance he is able to kill the mould that is the origin of rotting.
He multiplies the tests on different foodstuffs and points out that
the state of preservation of treated vegetables and meat is exceptional
even several months after the treatment. This fact can’t be explained
only by the destruction of micro-organisms. The « waves »
act on the living tissues. From the meat of the butcher until human
beings there is only one step…quickly covered.
Immediately , Priore starts to treat illnesses of his family and friends
with a certain success. Soon, he cures patients coming « just
in case… » because of the helplessness of the medicine(
we are in the after-war period, in the 45-50’s, the first antibiotherapies
start, the medical technique is uncertain, people lack everything).
His reputation extends.
Firsts contacts
In 1949 his superintendent friend, Durand(who helped him to escape)meet
him again on the occasion of a different with his landlady. Being attracted
by his inventions, he presents Priore to his colleagues as well as to
many acquaintances he maintains because of his functions and his past.
The importance of this link, which unites the two «brother of
arms» and the prestige of the resisters, surpass all social positions.
All this explains the incredible support that Priore had enjoyed since
this time.
While
his work begins (1949-1950), his scientific culture is poor, he speaks
an incomprehensible French-Italian language, and this humble radio repairer
from the suburbs of Bordeaux succeeds in winning the highest authorities
of the city-alerted by Durand-over his cause. Noteworthy and as powerful
as undone…
Thus,
around 1950, in the circle of the young mayor, hero of the resistance
J. Chaban-Delmas and with his agreement, servicemen of high ranks, the
members of the town council, the chief of the PJ in person are easily
convinced of the value of his work and use their powerful influences
to appeal the competent men to help.
Dr
Fournier, Priore’s physician gives the elements of a biological
basis, the veterinary of the slaughterhouses of the city offers him
free access to make experiments on animals. Both of them are so impressed
by his results that they join to the precedents to intervene with the
physicians of the anticancerous hospital of Bordeaux.
In
this time Priore, pride of his first success in the local press, declares
his first interpretation of the cancer : « electronical disturbance
of blood », with a sceptical look on the classical therapeutics,
he explained the action of his apparatus by « an electronical
bombing of 1-6 million electron-volt, carried by the magnetic waves
and the effect of that is the re-establishment of the electric and magnetic
disturbances of the cancerous cell. » (In fact, Priore never knew
what happened in his « machines » but he knew how to adjust
them in order to get the best results.)
The
cancerologists-sceptical but not able to escape from such solicitations-
advise Priore to create cancers in rabbits !!, in application of his
theories( what he will attempt to do without any success in 1952).
Dr
Blanquet, Delmon and Biraben give him some mice with different fearsome
tumours : the T8 resists all treatment.
Dr
Blanquet remembers to bring animals at Priore’s house in Floirac
in the suburbs (after his settling in 1954). Not without hesitation
! After his memories, the results were much better than those ones achieved
in hospitals ( hospitals with electrological service, herited by a tradition
of Bordeaux at the end of the 19th century) but not really convincing.
Then deliveries became less frequent. Delmon is advised to follow the
affaire from far… Priore keeps trying to get animals with tumours
from the anticancer center of Villejuif. In vain. Then, he has a shady
period until 1960, during that he can’t officially demonstrate
his results.
The
period of shadows and maturation 1952-1960
During this fertile period he takes advantage of curing many animal
cancers-in particular tumours of teats of dogs and cats- and of treating
human patients. The determination of the combinations of frequencies
to use is also a huge experimental work.
The
adjustments essentially are done on plants (tulips, citrus fruits, asparaguses…),
which are dried out or developed by Priore himself. He makes «
all azimuths » tests in order to test the power of his apparatus-
good or bad- and works on eggs, microbes, wine(reaction on fermentation,
ageing), milk…With the help of volunteers and with the active
support of the town hall, Priore imagines more and more complicated
and more and more efficient appliances, variances of an unchangeable
basis which remains-until there is only a short time- his « secret
».
It
is a period of an intense activity, during that he benefits from some
unimaginable help of our present society: the EDF « forgets »
his readings or sends him a bill of a simple domestic consumption while
his appliances become monstrous devourers of energy. Many firms, providers
of the town hall, are invited to bring their help in nature-while he
is gracefully realizing some complicated pieces. At night the military
warehouses discreetly bring out some sophisticated equipments for broadcasting
with the agreement of some important persons in charge(the general De
Benedetti, chief of the health services of the Army). Even the regional
director of social insurances covers these treatments ! He has only
one requirement : »It is necessary that the sheets of medical
attention and the prescriptions of the physicians working with Priore
mention :Free Act. »
Ten
years later it is the National Health Service of Gironde who rents offices
for him.
His
reputation grows : he welcomes some prestigious patients from the circle
of the Mayor of Bordeaux(and so the Mayor himself, several times-as
some witnesses assert).
His
« electric treatment » is mentioned by the influent milieu
of the region and soon in Paris too.
Then,
after his patients of the district, his modest laboratory can see patients
of the higher society of Aquitaine-sometimes recommended by their physician-
most of them with incurable illnesses such as cancers at terminal stadium,
multiple sclerosis…etc.
In
the rare written archives we can find some reports of microscopic examinations
that proves that Priore also cured cancers of a curable stadium by the
classical therapeutic. With incontestable success: so many unexpected
reductions, sometimes recoveries and all this is testified by several
histological reports, a constant and considerable improvement of the
general state of health and a considerable reduction of pain. The testimonies
are all unanimous!
Parallel
with his work, a deepened research is done by several physicians, «
providers » of Priore as DR Fournier ( he dedicates his few leisure
time for this). He gives the biochemical basis of the radiant effects
(it can act mainly with some enzymatic processes) and provides a coherent
explanation for the therapeutic effects as harmful effects.
Thirty
years later, after a long investigation, a suitcase reappeared in an
attic of an usher, gifted with foresight.
1960-1966
: The success of the official experiments
1 - Fundamental experiences of the cancerologists of Bordeaux.
Thanks
to the improvement of his appliances, the city speaks only about «
the Italian who cures the cancer ». From time to time, Priore
gets rats having cancer of a too important stadium to be cured which
did not allowed him to adjust his « machines ». The anticancerous
center lays down the arms to the insistence of the Mayor and accepts
to make some serious experiments. Dr Delmon an Biraben insures the control.
They
graft the incurable tumour T8 in three series of rats. This tumour kills
the animals in three weeks only ! The first serie dies, the second was
treated by x-rays and dies at the same time, the third is treated by
Priore fifteen days after the inoculation ; the implanted tumour is
already very developed. Results : the tumour grows three times less
fast and the rats survive three times longer !
The
physicians are intrigued by the generally good state of health of the
animals and by the fact that they do not seem to suffer despite their
slow agony. All patients, treated by Priore, feel much better and are
almost without any pain. Then they start new experiments in treating
rats earlier, from the seventh day instead of the 14th. Astonishment
!
They
are all cured! Biraben notes : »If we make biopsy on the grafted
tumour some days after the treatment, some cancerous cells stay alive.
If we graft them in untouched rats the tumours do not develop. It happens
as if they lost all their cancerous characters ».
Priore
makes sure that on the contrary, he can accelerate the death of animals
with changing his adjustments. And he succeeds ! These experiments will
be repeated with success on more than 300 rats.
Enthusiasm!
Exaltation! A project of scientific publications associated Priore with
the anticancerous center! A special teaching chair is created! An institute!
For Priore! Delmon and Biraben will be the directors! A press conference
takes place at the town hall! Priore who is surrounded by physicians,
presents his work, illustrated by several photos, films and microscopical
negatives. If the « big public » is enthusiastic, the big
chiefs of the hospitals and of the anticancerous center are less. The
results are too beautiful. A mouse is not a human being and they are
not there to judge the results of Priore on clandestine patients. One
of them however suggests Priore to treat about twenty cancerous patients
from his own service. His administration refuses it.
And
then, this strange Italian immigrant with small baggage, succeeds alone
there where the best big laboratories failed. The backstage of the cancerology
is cluttered by some genius autoproclaimers who pretend to detain this
universal panacea.
Their
carefulness can be explained by the behaviour of the inventor who refuses
all indication on his method, by his incomprehensible gibberish, by
his smoky theories and his total scientific anti-culture.
2
- Cancerologists from Paris come to rescue.
During
several years none wants to be involved. Under the great pressure of
the public opinion and of its municipal relay, Dr Delmon and Biraben
are advised to retire so Priore calls for the cancerologists of the
anticancerous center of Villejuif, the French reference in the subject,
especially Pr Guerin, father of the implanted tumour the T8, and Pr
Riviere.
He
will dedicate several years in full time for doing these experiments
again and again with the same incredible results.
We
must note that this work was accomplished by some official teams of
physicians and cancerologists in the laboratories of Bordeaux. Priore
only took care of his appliances.
Schematically
there are two types of cancers: the solid tumours (ex :lungs) and tumours
with a soft tissue (leukaemia).
The
first serie of experiments concerns rats with the solid tumour, called
T8, for which there is no treatment. It confirms the work made in Bordeaux
some years earlier. The definitive recovery of the tumour and its metastases,
without recidivism, is better if the treatment begins earlier (the tumour
is smaller).
The
length of the treatment and its power are determinative which suggests
a cumulative effect. The cured animals reject all trying of another
implantation of the same tumour. But they succumb to the implantation
of a different tumour. Like a vaccine, the treatment conferred a special
immunity.
The
second serie concerns an even more dangerous tumour :a sarcoma. It kills
the rat in fifteen days with monstrous metastases associated with a
type of leukaemia. The result is also stunning: A complete cure of the
tumours, their metastases and the leukaemia. The previous data are confirmed:
the rate of recovery depends on the mass of the tumour, the length of
the treatment and the power of the appliance. Here too a lasting immunity
prevents to make a new graft. As a precaution, the experiment is started
by another team…that gets the same success…and restarted
one year later with an improved apparatus. A success again but with
new criterions of the power and the length of the exposure. The same
cures happen again in the same conditions with mice having other types
of cancers ( lymph sarcoma, a type of leukaemia). If the topic were
not so serious we would shiver because of the banality.
At
least ten types of tumours are studied over more than a thousand of
animals.
Summary
: some of the best French cancerologists and also the president of the
Academy of Sciences proved that the appliances of Priore can manage
to stop the awful cancers resisting to all therapy.
Working
without constraints, they verified their results on hundreds of animals.
They established the importance of the intensity of radiance and the
length of the treatment. These ones will be the subject of several communications
in front of the Academy of Sciences, presented by its president himself
:Pr Courrier. The same script happens again: a man alone can’t
succeed there where the world of science failed. Most of the members
refuse to ratify the communications. An extraordinary media storm starts,
comparing Priore to an « impostor of the cancer » and the
cancerologists to someone who prefers galore, foolished by a swindler.
There
is a very important fact : Priore refuses to unveil his method. He can’t
do it. In 1965 he is unable to understand what happens in his extraordinary
complicated « machines ». His preposterously constructed
theories to explain his results collapse. He thought to generate a type
of x-rays and with all his effort he tries to increase their power of
penetration.
Despite
his certainties he does not take out any special radiance of his “machine
but a dark mixture of short waves. To understand this exceeds his possibilities.
Formerly,
he carelessly moved forward to defy the science with his smoky theories.
He knows that it does not forgive him this audacity. His only asset
to maintain the restraint of his appliance is his adjustment. This one
needs some simple tricks, without the machine does not make any effect.
He can perfectly indicate his way of proceeding but his interpretation
of the internal functioning can make him ridiculous. He knows it too.
He
has only one certainty and it concerns the size: his fantastic results
on the cancer. Priore keeps some “hot” partisans next to
him, especially from Bordeaux who made experiments with him.
Soon
the scientific, medical and media world is divided between “anti”
and “pro”, impostors or geniuses.
We
are in 1965, Priore have accumulated some phenomenal successes for fifteen
years but he becomes discouraged in the construction of the fabulous
machine of his dreams: powerful enough to cure men as easily as animals.
The presentation of his work in front of the Academy would have been
his consecration. And there was of what!
Things
are accelerated.
In
spite of the backwash, certain high governmental persons were convinced
of the interest of such an interesting discovery. The Minister of Research
calls him and orders a report for a commission of experts. They recommend
the construction of an appliance for the anticancerous center of Paris.
At the same time Priore gets proposals from several places, including
abroad also. A big French firm signs a contract of collaboration (after
request of one of its main shareholders who was treated and became impressed
by Priore).
The
echo of cures passes through the borderlines.
Some
Englishmen come to work in Bordeaux! And such English! They belong to
the biggest anticancerous center of England. They manage two series
of experiments. First, they cure mice with spontaneous cancer (it is
very important for the physicians. It concerns their own cancer and
not an inoculated tumour.). The success is complete. The Englishmen
are enthusiastic.
A
second serie of tests is meant for the cultures of cancerous cells.
Several varieties are treated.
The
conclusion indicates a simple slowing down of their development; so
the treatment is not able to kill directly the cells. We can notice
however an increase of the apoptosis (it is a kind of volunteer suicide
of the cell). But the fierce adversaries of Priore do not give it up.
From reports to reports, commissions to commissions these influential
men manage to break the ministerial willingness. Priore is an impostor
that is all !
3
- The impeccable experiments of Pr Pautrizel.
A brightness professor of immunology appears in Bordeaux: R. Pautrizel.
He has been interested in the topic since some time; he has his own
idea of the biological mechanism. For him the radiance mainly acts on
the stimulation of the defensive mechanism of the organism. He verifies
his hypothesis with some experiments. In order to divert a storm, he
convinces Priore to work some time on a model controlled by him: the
agent of the sleeping sickness. It is a parasite called ”trypanosome”
equiperdum” which is passed on by the tsetse fly. We call it trypanosome.
It works havoc in the African herds not in Paris. Both of them think
that putting in evidence the immunological mechanisms on an emotionally
less charged model (two hundred thousand people die in cancer every
year in France ) can be the way to cool down the debate. They work on
it during ten years.
At
the same time, a stormy collaboration starts with a very big firm of
electrical constructions: the ETS LEROY-SOMMER. It lasts ten years and
costs him ten million francs! During these years, thanks to state foundations,
to the investments of his industrial partners and to the sum collected
by Pautrizel, Priore makes a serie of more and more powerful appliances.
Pautrizel and his collaborators realize hundreds of experiments with
excellent protocols!! First he confirms the efficiency of the radiation
in curing infected mice. This infection is explosive and leads incurably
to death in four or five days. So, this model is much more difficult
to kill than the cancer. Despite the numerous experimental successes
nothing is done yet. Priore can’t be right! So he cheats! A commission
is created in order to verify the experiments under the control of an
usher. It contains about twenty members of the Faculty of Medicine.
It imposes some extraordinary requirements. The success is complete.
Instead of all that people are still sceptical…there must be a
trick!
Four
years are lost again.
However,
Pautrizel goes on. He proves the narrow relation between the rate of
cures and the accumulated dose of the radiation with infalsifiable experiments.
With some physicists in charge of making a report for the government
and for the army, he shows the importance of length of the hertzian
waves: some act on the cancer, the others on the infection.
He
puts in evidence the absence of direct effects on the parasites. They
are absolutely insensitive to the radiation. It is really by a immunological
mechanism that the organism can get rid of the abnormal cells, either
cancerous, microbial or parasital.
In
1972 the physicists give back a favourable report to Priore (not without
having tried to reproduce it in their laboratories, without any success),
involving an important subsidy, thanks to the insistence of the Mayor
of Bordeaux who meanwhile, became Prime Minister. He is sustained by
E.Wolf, with a Nobel Prize, the glory of the French research who made
successful experiments in the laboratory of Priore.
This
official engagement of the state will release again some violent polemics
in the scientific world. The French press is happy to declare “the
impostor of the cancer” (1).
The
foreign press makes it in the sarcasm while several laboratories of
high level try to reproduce the effects. None succeeds.
(1)”Science
& Vie” publishes a long, favourable and well-documented article
on this topic, signed by P. Rossion.
4
- The last apparatus: monstrous !
Putting in place the enormous tube, the heart of the “machine”,
through the roof of the building.
Now,
Priore is sixty years old. He cured his first cancers twenty years ago.
Such a lost time! He was forced in the name of the scientific reason
to give up human cancer for the cancer of mice then to pass from the
cancerous mice to mice being infected by an obscure African parasite…and
always the doubt. His secret is irritating and harmful for him. His
astounding results are his challenge! They are too beautiful. What if
he gave his methods again?
There
was not an important communication signed by some prestigious cardiologists
of Bordeaux, stupefied by noting an extraordinary normalization of the
cholesterol rate of rabbits specially fed with fat. There is now subsidy
to construct a machine to do everything with! (In this time the role
of the immune system in the arteriosclerosis was unknown.)
What
did he get from these years of frustration? He is tired out. He decides
to rush things and to reconsider the aim of his life: the cure of cancer.
He risks everything, for the great displeasure of everyone, with giving
up his contract, the construction of a reliable apparatus in order to
start to realize a huge machine. It will be his last goal, his masterpiece,
and his consecration. It will have three floors!
No
more questions of mice. Only for the finalization or for the scientific
demonstration, if it is really necessary. This fabulous machine should
be powerful enough to treat even the most developed human cancers without
failure.
He
is sure of his success; he prepares already the plans and the specifications
of a future factory of mass production in Bordeaux!!! His time is numbered
so he is in a hurry. His diabetes becomes more important. His partners
revolt. Doesn’t matter! They are not really able to construct
an apparatus and specially to adjust it! So he makes it alone with the
help of some agents, attached to the town hall. He orders the associated
enterprises the pieces for his plan while cursing against all modifications,
and he reserves the setting only for himself in order to preserve some
characteristics. The engineer will never uncover the mystery despite
all their effort.
At
this point it was necessary to resolve to follow Priore. Evidently,
the operation includes some huge difficulties, less for the setting
of the monster but more for the realization of the enormous pieces,
required by the power of the apparatus. He reached the technological
limits, caused by the several failures and the bad reliability. All
is excessive; the same apparatus that stood on a pedestal table in the
50’s (and cured already) now weighs fifty tons and has three floors.
It contains several emitters of a type of radar and radio. Their waves
are mixed in an enormous plasma lamp – a four meters high Pyrex
cylinder- surrounded by an imposing “spool” which generates
magnetic fields and weighs alone more than five tons. All is suspended.
The miraculous radiation comes out through the bottom.
Priore
succeeds his bet! He overcomes all the obstacles one after the other,
stupefying his circle. We are in 1975. The machine is more powerful
than ever and allows him to make immediately about forty experiments
to show the superior efficiency of it- now he is able to cure mice even
on the threshold of death! The mechanism of the action is authoritatively
confirmed. It involves an intense stimulation of the immune system.
The Pr Wolf (he has a Nobel Prize) makes successful experiments; he
confirms the important increase of antibodies… Priore won!!…and
the apparatus is the victim of a serious breakdown. The main emitter
blew out. The sum asked for the repair will never be obtained because
the requirements of the inventor make the partners exceed.
The
industrialists lose hope to get back their funds and refuse all additional
payment. The Ministry was already very careful and retires from the
business under the gibes of the opponents forever. Even to save his
machine Priore refuses to reveal its functioning. In spite of several
negotiations the apparatus will never work again. The total investment
is estimate to twenty million francs!
Plan
in principle of the last apparatuses
During
the years of the rest of his life, he keeps on hoping to repair it and
at the same time he starts treating patients again thanks to his old
apparatus. The improvements he gets attract nevertheless the attention
of the “big bosses” of the hospitals of Bordeaux. One of
them, the pr Courty will practise until today the functions of the regional
president of the order of the physicians and we must salute here his
courage.
A
decision is taken in order to treat a dozen of incurable patients who
are in the end of the evolution and resisted all treatments. They have
nothing to lose. They are all volunteers. The power of the apparatus
is enough to treat mice but not sufficient for the treatment of advanced
cancers. In spite of all an unexplainable cure is obtained, the unexpected
remissions, the melting of the ganglionic mass and in all cases a considerable
improvement of the general state of health. These observations are the
subjects of a report- alas! -that is refused by the Academy of Medicine.
Pr
Pautrizel loses the management of his unity of research in this story.
The INSERM ( the big public institute of medical researches ) considers
that his activity turned to the profit of Priore.
The
last cock a snook of the destiny, a convocation to ELYSEE arrives under
the best auspices.
The
militaries will take the things in hand. We are in February in 1981.
Three months later the president falls, Priore falls again…definitively.
As
a person who is seriously ill and angry against his relations, he breaks
up with Pautrizel, his faithful companion. Then he stops his appliances,
sends away his patients and closes himself again, hopelessly.
He
dies in May 1983 being forgotten, the biggest revolutionary pioneer
and therapeutic since Pasteur.
The
research of the lost secret
Priore
is dead so the main obstacle of the recognition of his discoveries disappeared.
During several years, many specialists made directly or indirectly experiments
on the apparatus. In the high administration and in the directorates
of the Ministry several persons were able to go closer to the “machine”.
None of the experts who once looked into this work had doubts about
the value of the discovery. But before taking a risk of being ridiculous
because of supporting the requirements of the inventor there is a rift
that few were able to get over prudently.
Now,
the way was open to make some rational experiments. This Italian technician
made a fantastic discovery with lots of chance and not much money. None
has doubts that a competent university team with important credits and
with exceptional political supports is able to find the good adjustment
that is the only serious difficulty.
As
at least the main protagonists thought of this matter. And such protagonists!
Several teams were formed like that.
Let’s
forget for a while the innumerable crazy persons who are convinced that
they understood everything after the first view. They are numerous to
try to plagiarize even before the death of Priore. Some deals always
severely with…we will speak about is later.
The
industrialists were strongly engaged before, now they insist on –
not without arguments – the property of the last apparatus, which
is in the laboratory of the house of his widow. The necessary credit
for the repair of the monstrous machine will never be obtained. (It
is an estimate of 8,6 million francs which is addressed to Laurent Fabius
three months after the death of Priore, thanks to P. Ribeau, the chief
engineer of LEROY-SOMMER industry.)
Ribeau
is really vexed to try in vain to reconstruct a more simple apparatus,
the same type than the one he supervised the construction in the name
of his enterprise. Priore did not let anything essential to filter out
so the engineer was in a permanent struggle with the inventor. Limiting
himself to reproducing the apparatus without knowing its functioning
inside, the failure seemed to be sure. It was.
The
trying of University of Bordeaux has much more possibilities.
Priore
dies in 1983 when the region inherits some important financial prerogatives.
And everybody knows the obtaining of the fantastic results. Some people
among the highest persons in charge profited by the “treatment”.
There is a unique fact we know, the attribution of an important regional
subsidy is decided, confusing all political tendencies (two million
francs twenty years ago! and the half of it is paid), thanks to an association
of the low of 1901 where we can find some principle academic protagonists
of the business.
Only
for the anecdote, the president of the regional council in this time,
Ph Madrelle delegated his young chief of the office, A. Rousset to sign
the cheques of the subsidy…He is the president now and always
a very hot partisan.
The
intention is praiseworthy but risked if we think about the polemics
that the matter already caused. In the stride another initiation is
created by the Region at the Faculty of Sciences, an official structure
to restart the study. It will be the PIOM ( center of the study of interactions
in wave subject ). We can find in its management the physicists lately
charged by the government to measure the apparatus of Priore-mainly
professors at the University.
The
team is full of physicists from Paris, the research of a future state
secretary and important persons in charge ensure the relationship with
the big statesmen (Pr Bader ex N°2 of the CNRS, very influent expert).
The prominent persons of the scientific and industrial world of Bordeaux
took part of the adventure and revolve round this core (let’s
note the director of the “Aerospatiale”). Then the logistic
support of the department of the atomic energy of which some members
will be detached to full time.
Later,
they are joined first by Ribeau who is tired of his failures, then by
the remnants of the Pautrizel team, disappointed at not having any results
of the amateurs who were occasionally supported by them
Twenty
years later, despite the luxury of financial and human means: a complete
failure. How could we get there?
The competitions
As
always before the big stakes, some important rivalries appeared between
the interest of industrialists, scientists, academicians, biologists
and physicians, all regrouped around Pautrizel, etc… doubling
this sharp conflict of the persons.
By
another way, the comparison of the profusion of the means to that what
Priore had in his possession for the finalization of his first appliances
can give us an impression of easiness of a competent team. Too competent!
This competence will be the cause of blindness as soon as the first
failures arrive.
PRIORE
: it is very simple
As
a matter of fact Priore who wanted to preserve the control of his appliances,
tried to complicate his explications in front of the scientists, qualified
to understand the functioning. And they finish to believe that it is
necessary to have a scholar of the dosage of the “waves”.
He did not have the same attitude with certain intimates or with sure
fellows since the first hour. With them he unbosomed himself.
“It
is simple, it is so simple that I don’t understand why none was
able to find out something so simple.”
Another
favourite sentence: “They will never find it, it is so simple!”
And the witnesses say that it made him laugh a lot.
Sometimes
he is anxious: “My “trick” is so simple, so basic
that if I speak too much any electronics specialist could make the same
and my work will be lost.”
These
are the speeches of Priore, repeated several times and the persons to
whom they were said report them for us. They show the anxiety of the
inventor face to the academic persons who are more qualified than him
to expand his discovery if he would have uncovered the big lines of
it…and the technical tricks.
Because,
and this is secret of this topic, the discovery was not the fruit of
an obscure theory (it was made only later to explain his results) but
of a simple hypothesis that emerges to a technical trick. Chance or
perseverance, one thing is sure: in 1950, the date of the first successes,
Priore did not have any means in his possession to create a coherent
reason for his find. On the contrary.
To
be convinced, it is enough to listen to certain engineers (all dead
now) how they were amazed by the basic questions of Priore.
With
this (or these) technical trick none has doubts that some well-educated
men can make better…and without him
A
fantastic mistake of the interpretation
The
University was never able to derive the main underlying in a complete
appearance. They wanted to find a complicated solution for a simple
thing that they were not able to understand. And that is human. If the
searchers of great abilities are not able to go through the secret of
Priore it is because this secret is extremely complicated!
By
another way, if the qualification of these brilliant academics is indisputable,
their field of competence – too theoretical- is not adapted to
the comprehension of the functioning as Priore considered and put it
in a concrete form
All
the efforts are reported to a study of secondary aspects of the functioning
by a fantastic mistake of the interpretation.
During
twenty years people will try to perfectly reproduce the electrical signs,
which were recorded during the measures some years earlier, without
asking the question about what Priore really wanted to do. When will
do it will be already too late. Witnesses are dead so there are no more
memories Fifty years are gone since his first success.
First,
in the meantime, after the failure of several attempts to reproduce
the “machine” in different laboratories, even before the
death of Priore, some people decide to study separately the different
components of the radiation in order to determine the role and especially
the influence of the magnetic fields of the radio waves or microwaves
(the waves that Priore used are close to the frequency of our mobile
phones) on different infections.
Without
any results !
The
"secret society"
A
real science fiction, the finalization of this apparatus gather together
the energy of all the horizon, the discreet financial means and all
the supports of very high level. Until then the study of the radiation
amounts to the different components and confirms the activity of several
laboratories. The only (!) unknown seems to be at the level of the proportions
of the cocktail and of the intermodulation (the mixture) of the waves.
It is not disturbing at all.
Then
the University leaves the marked way of the official science in order
to start, in all illegality and with the money of the taxpayers, the
construction of the mythical “machine of Priore” of what
the inventor is considered as an impostor and swindler! Let’s
imagine the titles of the special press he succeeds!
The
clandestineness of this second phase imposes on everybody. The secret
of the means and names of the prestigious members stays still jealously
protected. Several defections and indiscreetness allows us to clear
this mystery.
This
apparatus itself is a faithful copy of the one of Priore. Even if it
does not reach the dimensions of that, it looks very imposing. It contains
an “plasma tube” for the first time, a complicated piece,
essential for the mixture of the waves ,as the inventor says. After
the failure in separating the different components, they choose to study
the global action of the “radiation” with badly controlled
characteristics but they hope to get information with the help of trials
and errors.
The
department of atomic energy delegates in full time one of its brilliant
engineers when diverse enterprises, under the obligation of the department,
lend their competence. Besides the evident facilities obtained by the
University, some new credits are gotten by different ways ( contracts
of studies, Ministry of the Research, EDF…etc).
Despite
the years of hard work, they did not get any tangible result! Why?
The
reason is multiple. Except the ones already noted, in particular the
maladjustment of the competences and “the sin of pride”,
let’s note:
- The will of isolation and secret leads to reject any original idea,
as well as the ideas of physicians who know well this matter.
- Any study of the materials and the techniques of the medical electricity
had been done since the beginning of the century and so Priore was really
inspired to do it.
- There was no serious investigation to find eyewitnesses , the humbles
who “wet their shirts” and to whom Priore tells his secrets
of the principle in confidence because he trusts them.
- On the plan of the method there are two main reproaches:
The choice of the experimental pattern, the “trypanosome”.
The infection is runaway and reacts only towards an apparatus of very
high level.
It is a slightly adapted model for the trials; the model of the cancer
was much better.
The lack of a clear leader idea concerning the conception and the functioning
of the apparatus. They were satisfied with the reproduction of
the apparatus after the details they knew about it, with the variations
of different parameters in particular the frequencies without an exact
idea of the result, counting on the guardian angel…
From
report to report, from break down to break down, from disappointment
to disappointment the best will pass over, the groups disperse, the
budget becomes exhausted and…the sleeping partners are fed up.
Many
years passed. At the faculty of Sciences in Bordeaux the existence of
the “Machine” became an open secret. In their subterranean
bunkers somewhere on the campus of the University, a last faithful cell
is grouped around Pr VEYRET who establishes other engagements. He is
not disappointed…
The
solution of the enigma is on the way to succeed somewhere else, in a
modest laboratory in the suburbs of Bordeaux…
