What are the historical accounts of the uses of inert gases and people?
Xenon was breathed as an anesthetic in 1930’s medical practice experimentally, but it is so expensive it was soon replaced by the intravenous drug methods now used. Radioactive Xenon is still used today, in low concentrations (as a “tracer), to make radiologic (x-ray) maps of the lungs and respiratory system. More sophisticated M.R.I. (molecular resonance imaging) and C.A.T. (computer-aided tomography) and other increasingly sophisticated methods are replacing this use of Xenon. In 1925, Georges Lakhovsky used Argon in copper tubes bent into “Golden Mean” nested curved shapes for the antennae in his Multi-Wave Oscillator (MWO) (see The Secret of Life, by Georges Lakhovsky, B.S.R.F. Publishing). In the 1930’s and early 1940’s, Royal Raymond Rife used Helium in his instruments produced by his Beam Ray Corporation (see “The New Microscopes,” by R.E. Seidel and M. Elizabeth Winter, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume 237, Number 2, February 1944 pp 103-130, republished in The Smithso
