The Discrimination of Birthtypes

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THE
DISCRIMINATION
OF BIRTHTYPES

JOHN ADDEY
THE DISCRIMINATION
OF BIRTH-TYPES

IN RELATION TO DISEASE

JOHN M. ADDEY, M.A.

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 THE DISCRIMINATION OF
BIRTH-TYPES IN RELATION
TO DISEASE

Author's Note
This essay was first written and submitted for publication In 1965.
That original attempt at publication scored what might be called a
'near miss'. It was then put aside but since that time further paralld
work by the writer and others and a gradually changing climate of
thought about the Issues dealt with have encouraged me to publish
the work in booklet form.
The text has been brought up to date In one or two particulars but
the main theme and its Illustrations are as given In the original version. There are many problems In the field of medical research which
Some of the researches referred to may now seem to have lost some of may be said to devolve upon the question of genetic types and the
their topicality; today one might have used other Illustrations, but the relative Inherent susceptibilities of different kinds of people to certain
relevance of the centnd argument Is unaffected. classes of pathological disorder.
I must acknowledge the collaboration In the researches described That such Inherent predispositions exist is so obvious and well-
In the latter part of the work, of my friend, Peter C. Roberts. Much recognised that no special justification of their importance Is called for.
of the credit for the findings described there Is his. The concept of Inherited diseases and Inherited susceptibility to par
I am also much Indebted to James Buchanan for drawing the diagrams ticular disorders Is a familiar one and has always had a place In medical
and to Peggy Lance for typing and proof-reading. study and practice. So likewise the closely related^ifjiot Identical, ques
tion of constitutional physiological types. v.:
J.MA. All prophylactic medicine must concern itsd^'wlth this issue. If
July 1973 steps are to be taken to anticipate and prevent certain ailments then the
prophylactic measures are best administered where a real susceptibility
exists or where it Is greatest. A campaign of universal Inoculation, for
example, might be wasteful If It could be shown that only some people
had a significant predisposition to the disease against which the inocu
lation was directed and it might even be altogether mistaken if it were
The Spiral Cover Design is one of the"harmonographs"of the known that, for other people, the inoculation itself carried a risk.
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont Bamaby (1831-1902), a contemporary of Sir Similarly It is well known that some drugs, whilst they operate bene
Walter Sesant at Christ's College, Ounbridge, and vicar of Hampstead, ficially in most cases, produce very serious side-effects in a few, due
1873-1900. His deep interest in the relationship between different evidently to some special constitution^ tendency in the patient.
civilisations, their calendars fmd the movements of the heavenly bodies
But the problem goes further than this. Unless there Is some
led him to make many such designs based upon helical epi^cloids and
their derivatives.
objective yardstick for distinguishing physiological types and their
characteristic ailments, there may easily arise a tendency to attribute
to accidental, precipitating causes of disease what should really be
ascribed to some Inherent constitutional cause which Is the dominant
and determining factor..
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 Some classic medical controversies have centred upon this problem. lation of men with their distinctive times and seasons, and especially
For example, it is widely held that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung with their origins in time.
cancer and there can be no doubt that some connection' between the
This statement must inevitably appear, on the surface, to be a
two things does exist. Yet there have always been a tenacious, and singularly obscure one and a further discussion of its theoretical basis
often well-informed, few who have maintained that the relationship might not, for most readers, contribute very much to its clarification.
between them is not a simple matter of cause and effect but that both It seems wisest, therefore, to tackle the subject in terms of actual
smoking and lung-cancer are common features of a certain psycho-
examples.
physiological type; and in support of this they educe arguments tending
to show that the acknowledged facts of the case point at least as well We shall therefore try to show;
to this sort of relationship as to a straightforward casual one.^ (1) that there is strong evidence (evidence which is all too easily
To be fair to the proponents of this view it must be said that their rejected on metaphysical grounds) to support a relationship be
case has never been fully answered, and so the possibility remains. But, tween the time when a person is bom* and the diseases to which he
whatever the truth, it must be admitted that this is one instance where a
is prone and, by implication, to his psycho-physiological type, and
sound, objective and comprehensive method of discriminating between (2) that the key to this relationship is to be found in the harmonics,
different constitutional birth-types would contribute substantially to that is the rhythms and sub-ryhthms, of cosmic periods.f
the elucidation of the problem of disease incidence and the principles In o er to show that medical research has already, from time to
of prophylactic medicine. time, pointed to the truth of our first thesis, we shall ^aw, in respect
In the past decade or so there has grown up a very vigorous move of (1) upon two studies (or groups of studies) by medical statisticians
ment in the field of biological studies which has set out to re-assess the which have already been published. But in respect of (2) we shall de
foimdations of biology and in the process has put forward postulates pend upon an original study of our own which is, however, part of, and
which have inverted many of the traditional modes of approach to the consistent with, a series of researches carried out by the author (and
understanding of living things. In particular there has been a tendency others®) in this and kindred fields.
to revert to the conception of the hierarchical organisation of living Let us then take as our starting-point the article by B. K.S. Dijk-
things; to the principle that behind parts of organisms is a co-ordinating stra in the Journal of the National GJancer Institute (Vol. 31, No. 3,
unity, or a hierarchy of unities subordinated and super-ordinated one Sept., 1963) in which he described an examination of the dates of birth
tor another, and this not only in terms of their structure in space but of 330 lung cancer sufferers in Holland and concluded that they showed
adso of their development in time so that the life movements of all a significantly abnormal distribution both by year of birth and also by
living things are seen as* expressions in time of a co-ordinated life- date of birth. In the latter case, the births showed a peak incidence in
process which is organised and maintained throughout a lifetime by March and a low incidence in the summer months and Dijkstra sug
some regulating whole. gested an explanation linking these two factors with certain physio
This is leading biologists to turn to the study of the relationship logical effects which could be brought about by a deficiency, in the one
of living things to time, their continuity in time, their order in time, case, and an abundance in the other, of Vitamin A in the, diet of the
their time-responses, their growth and development in time and« above newly bom child. (Milk has a low Vitamin A Content at the end of
all, as I believe, to their origins in time winter, a high one in the summer.)
I have tried to show elsewhere^ that this conception of hierarchies In the correspondence in the British medical journal, 7/te Lancet,
in nature and their expression in temporal life-processes, if it is to be which followed the publication of Dijkstra*s paper, two other Dutch
fully understood, must be seen in terms of the life of nature as a whole. sources sent in their sets of monthly totals of lung cancer birth-
If there are hierarchies in nature, where is the summit, in nature, dates.^ They were the University Cancer Registration Centre, Amster
of those hierarchies? There can only be one answer to this question. dam, and University CoUege Hospital, Groningen.
All living things are generated, live and evolve in a cosmic environment Since Dijkstra's cases totalled only 330 and Univejreity CollegCi
and, if the principle of a hierarchical organisation in nature holds good, Groningen, only 150, we may reasonably and conveniently put these
then it is to the rhythms and sub-rhythms of the cosmic environment two sets together for comparison with the much larger total of 1,320
that the life-rhythms of living things must be subordinated. cases from Amsterdam so as to provide ourselves with the.best av^L
In this context, I believe that all the ryhthms of nature are based able comparison of large totals.
upon hannonics of cosmic periods. This is the basis, among other
things, of the existence in nature of so-called circadian, and other simir ♦ Time' in this context is taken in its widest connotation: the epochs the
lar rhythms. ■ century, the year, the monith, the day, the hour... '
Man, on his coiporal side, is part of nature. Thus the key to the t By 'cosmic periods' we mean any natural period of time derived from
discrimination of physiological types in man is to be found in the corre cyclic events in space, such as the rotation or revolution of the earih or
the orbital, synodic or diuinal periods of heavenly bodies.
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Here are the two sets of Dutch lung cancer birth-dates as dis OUM

tributed by monthly totals from January to December (Fig. 1). JUU

It will be seen that these two distribution patterns present a K/i

thoroughly consistent picture.
Before the additional data had been sent by the two above-named dates, a variation 'which, moreover, proved to be identical for the dif
Dutch sources, the significance of Dijkstra's figures had been chal ferent categories of cancer'.
lenged by the Royal Marsden Hospital's Institute of Cancer Research, Altogether, the case for some sort of seasonal rythym in cancer births
Chelsea.®,' where an analysis had been made of the birth-dates of 2,042 seems to be very strong indeed, though it must be regarded as an un
men dying of lung cancer in Southern England during 1959 and 1960. explained phenomenon for the Vitainin A deficiency theory was evi
In this study the high incidence of March births was no longer in evi dently soon discarded.
dence and, instead, the peak came in the Autumn. Yet, leaving aside
the qu^on of how f^ Dutch and English cancer cases can be treated
as strictly compai^ble, the distribution of the English lung cancer births
was not so grossly dissimilar from the Dutch ones that the case for
some sort of seasonal rhythm was destroyed, and if the distributions
are considered by three-monthly totals, then their underlying similar
ity becomes apparent (Fig. 2).
Some time later, in The Lancet of Sept. 5th, 1964, W. J. J. We must now consider the work of a Scottish surgeon pathologist,
Sauvage Nolting wrote ffoih Holland to say that in a much larger sur T.^ W.^ Lees (at one time of t.aw Hospital, Carluke, in Scotland, more'
vey of 15fi9l cancer cases, pf which one-third were cancer of the lung, recently of the Provincial Laboratories, Prince Albert Island, Canada).
'a distinct seasonal variation' was shown in the distribution of birth- Comparatively little has been heard of this work, considering its pene-
 gone down to one-third ; all smoke passes over the larynx and the
CAMCeg g7f= THE: lJUh4»
association of smoking with laryngeal cancer thirty years ago was as
good as that with lung cancer today
<?0«eRv^c? QSAtM
The sole reason that the death rate from lung cancer has con
F*^t=>k:rret? CSCCTH
tinued to rise in recent years is that the 'lung cancer generation' is now
reaching the age of 70 and more, and so the very high incidence of
deaths from lung cancer among those over 70 has offset the falling
death rate at all lower ages. But now, as Lees predicted fifteen years
ago, the two forces are balancing and by the early 1980-ies it will be
falling at all ages.
JCjOCO— 'From time to time the intensity of some specific factor in the
environment rises in parallel with the increase of some cancers. It is
5,000—
then claimed to be the dominant "cause". Sooner or later, however, the
intensity of the "cause" and the level of the alleged"effects" part
company.'® This stage has already been passed in relation to smoking
and lung cancer. The facts speak for themselves: the lung cancer mor
tality rate for those under 35 has been falling for nearly 25 yeare; it
has been falling at all ages below 45 since 1955 and at all ages below
iooo—
60 since about 1965—and this at a time when there was certainly no
decline in cigarette smoking and among the very age-groups who smoke
500— most cigarettes..
The crude association of smoking with lung cancer is not ques
tioned, but proof of association, no matter how overwhelming, is not
proof of causation.
In aqtuality it can be seen that each type of cancer is related
primarily to some factor which operates from birth.
One is reminded again of the conclusion drawn by Dijkstra who,
having examined his evidence from various points of view and having
placed these different aspects of the evidence side by side wrote:
'Mathmatically this means only one factor is responsible for its
(cancer's) origin .. , the question is where to look for that one factor.
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An three curves suggest the moment of birth* ,^
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The striking feature of the two pieces of research which have been
\ described—and the one to which attention is particularly drawn—^is
rate for all ages over 50 was probably too high). In the case of lung that in both cases the researcher was driven to the conclusion that, for
cancer it will be seen that it is those who were born in approximately whatever reason, there was, in the problem of cancer causation, some
the first decade of this century who show, at every age, the greatest crucial factor to be considered which operated from birth.
tendency to the disease. Confronted with such a discovery the natural reaction of the
Of the relationship between smoking and lung cancer Dr. Lees present-day scientist, accustomed to think primarily in terms of proxi
says: 'The sternest critic of the theory that smoking causes lung cancer mate material and efficient causes, is to search the infant or pre-natal
is the behaviour of the disei^e itself ... Forty years ago when tongue environment for some extrinsic factor which would induce a permanent
cancef wiEts in its heyday it Was "caused" by smdking, but now it has constitution^ predisposition to the ailment in question (Dijkstra's sug-*
idmost disappeared. Today smoking "causes" lung cancer because that gestion was the Vitamin A deficiency).
has gone up fifteen times but inot cancer of the larynx because that has However, it is possible that this is nOft the only way, or even the
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b^t way, of looking at the problem and it is interesting to note that Dr. There are a number of temporal rhythms which can be shown to
Lees (insofar as he considers the point) appears to find that the ob relate to poliomyelitis-prone births, but it is essential in this instance
served facts do not favour explanations in terms of eflScien; causes— to keep the outline of our case clear and its basis as simple and un-
for example cigarette smoking; rather, he sees (in his ^vave theory* of coiitroversial as possible. Therefore the period we shall examine is the
disease incidence) only the sweep of some larger 'biological law' ye.ir of 365^ days approximately, the period of our planet's revolution
moulding the course of events; he has even used the term 'inexor- around the sun. (This of comse is the basis of those seasonal varia
.able'.® Such thoughts, one suspects, do not readily accord with our tions already observed in connection with cancer-prone birth-dates.)
modem viewpoint on such matters. We like to be able to correlate In order to study the rhythms, within the year, of our births it will
neatly, the rise of cancer of the lip with the use of the clay pipe, lung be both simpler and more accurate if we convert our birth dates into
cancer with cigarettes and so on. But if such correlations do not fit solar longitudes. The sun's longitude on a given day scarcely differs
the facts then Dr. Lees must be a better scientist and not a worse one from one year to another but it is easier to deal with 360 (degrees in a
for saying so candidly. circle) than 365/366 (days in a year).
, We may reflect that in another age men would have seen the out- Our basic data consists, therefore, of 1,023 solar longitudes, being
w^d chain of efficient causation as being subject to and moulded by a the sun's position (eastward from the vernal point), to the nearest whole
higher order of fojhmal causes and they would have reflected that the degree, at noon, on the day and year of birth of children with polio
seat of the formal{causes of disease in man is the soul. Thus perhaps myelitis. Distributed round the 360° circle of the ecliptic these give us
even so down-to-earth a psychologist as Professor Eysynck is nearer 3^ totals each representing, to all intents and purposes, the number
the truth, when he sees both smoking and lung cancer as common of such births on a given day of the year.
characteristics of a certain type. In order to visualise clearly what is involved we can picture the
- We do not always realise what an overshadowing role meta circle of the year with the total number of cases for each degree
physical concepts play in determining what Ls to be accepted and what blocked in as in Figure 5:
rejected in the field of scientific enquiry and discovery. Certainly Dr.
Lees' researches are worthy of a far greater degree of attention than
has been accorded to them.^® Fl<S'
We have seen that Dijl^tra pointed to significant fluctuations in the
year of birth of lung cancer sufferers and he and others to seasonal
fluctuations in their births! We have also seen that Lees points to
Bduch larger fluctuations which affect whole generations.
It is the writer's contention that all these fluctuations are based
on the harmonics of cosmic periods.
In order to illustrate the principles and to show, furthermore, that
such fluctuations in birth times,relate not only to generations, to years
and to seasons, but also to days and to hours, it will be necessary to
change diseases.
Tlie author has not had access to any large collections of cancer
birth-dates but having worked for some years with children suffering
from paralytic poliomyelitis, a large number of birth dates of suf
ferers from this complaint were available to him.
There is no anomaly in this change from one disease to another;
the principles involved are the same in both cases and in this con- With only 1,023 cases spread through 360 degrees the total for
nectioQi it is of interest to note that Lees has also studied the long-term each degree is not going to be high: an average of less than three per
fluctuations of poliomyelitis and has predicted that it will return in the degree; but, as we shall show, this thin spread is not an impediment to
midrl980^ies, affecting, in middle life, the same generation which it our purpose.
orl^nally attacked in infancy and, later^ in adolescence. Now when Dijkstra and others studied the seasonal distribution of
Our poliomyelitis data, then, consist of two groups of children cancer birth dates, they divided the circle of the year into twelve
who contracted poliomyelitis before the age of 16: 443 cases fooin months and gave a total iox each month.
C^ueen Mary's CMdr^n's Hospital School, Carshalton, Surrey, and 580 We are now no longer interested in such monthly totals^^ since
from the National Orthopaedic Children's Hospital School, Stiuflnore, our purpose is to show the presence of much shorter rhythms than can
Middlesex-^],023 Oases in all. be revealed in this way. Where Dijkstra considered the yearly distribu-
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 tion^pf.biEths-month by month we shall examine the birth rhythms
within each twelfth part of the circle.
This may seem an unlikely exercise but other researches by the
writer have given abundant justification for such a study.
In dividing the circle of the ecliptic^around which the sun appears
to travel) into twelve 30° sectors, we are in effect dividing the year into
twelve approximately 30-day periods and we are to investigate whether
there are significant and consistent rhythms at work within these periods
which throw up certain times when polio-prone births tend to occur
and others when they do not.
For this stage of the investigation we shall, in the first place, take
all our 1,023 birth dates, converted into solar longitudes and distributed
round the 360° of the circle, and show them as thirty degree-by-degree
totals for two groups of alternate 30° sectors round the ecliptic. In
other words we are dividing the 360° into twelve 30° sectors, calling
these alternately 'a' ?pctors and 'b' sectors (Fig. 6)and showing the sun's

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the 30° period then (to take a leap forward) those rhythms must all be
-- O (2» »AA«ch) |0o' sub-harmonics or sub-rhythms of that period.
And as they are harmonics of that period then we shall be able
to see their presence even more clearly by subdividing the 30° period
by the whole numbers—that is by 2, 3 and so on—and examining the
distribution of births within those shorter periods. .
If, for example, we divide the ecliptic into 24 sectors of 15° each
and again compare *a' and 'b' sectors as shown in Fig. 8 then the

degree-'by-degree distribution in all the *a' sectors put together com

pared with its distribution in all the 'b* sectors put together. Fig. 7 S
shows tiie r^ult.
\ Now although the fact may not be instantly apparent, (especially
* to the eye unaccustomed to such comparisons), the two distribution pat
terns shown in Fig. 7 are exceedingly similar. A close scrutiny will
reveal this to be so. In fact the similarity is such that it would occur
by chance less than once in 100 times.*
If this similarity is not a chance one then, what exactly does it
imply? It implies that within each 30° sector (roughly within each 30-
day period) there are birth rhythms at work which have a special rela- *
tidnship to poliomyelitis-prone births, and because those rhythms are
operating to produce a definite distribution pattern of such births within

♦ The coefficient of correlation is 0.512 (t=3.14) but for the control (see
-below>-0.053.
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degree-by-degree distribution for the two groups is as follows (Fig. 9).

The similarity of distribution of births within these (approximately)
IS-day periods is now quite clear. The fundamental rhythm is of course
the 24th harmonic of the circle, a wave of 15°. But superimposed upon
this there are two other vigorous harmonics present: the 48th (show
ing as two waves of 7^°) and the 120th (showing as five waves of 3°).
We may illustrate how these three rhythms combine to give the distinc
tive distribution shown in Fig. 9 as in Fig. 10:
Comparing the bottom line in this, Fig. 10, with the distribution
THIS
shown in Fig. 9, we can see that the forces at work shaping the dis
tribution of polio-prone nativities within each 24th part of the year (c.f 9)
consist primarily of three harmonics of the annual cycle of which the
120th (3°)is a particularly strong presence.
The shape of the wave complex in the bottom line of Fig. 10 is
analogous to the sound wave of a note sounded on a musical instru
ment. When such a note is soimded the pitch of the note is repr«ented
by a fundamental wave form'(top line), but to this are added sub-
harmonics of that same note and these Vary from one instrument to
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 another to give the characteristic 'timbre' of the instnunent upon which In order to test the validity of these findings two things are
the note is sounded. Here we have just such a wave complex which needed: a control group and a new set of polio birth-dates.
is repeated over and over again, twenty-four times in each complete Strictly speaking the control is not needed. The sun's apparent
circle. daily motion varies but little during the year and such variation as
The thin spread of cases (less than three per degree on average) exists is entirely eliminated when the ecliptic is divided, as has been
is such that our characteristic wave 'signal' would seldom show up in done, into twelve sectors which are then added together. The same is
any one 15° sector but, by dividing our distribution pattern into 24 true of variations in the birth rate at different times of-the year. How
sectors and collecting these sectors together in two groups of twelve, ever, in order to eliminate doubt, a control collection of birth-dates was
the random elements in each separate sector are cancelled out and the made. Our original total of cases was 1,023, and these were derived
'signal' is left showing.'^ from two main sources; therefore the control group was- made up of
If we think again about Fig. 7, we shall realise that of the pos 512(=1,023^2)random birth-dates of school children from three dif
sible sub-harmonics of that 30° sector of the circle we have extracted ferent localities, the yearly total of birth-dates in the control being, for
so far'(1.0. in Fig. 9), only those which will fit into half the period— each year, just half of the yearly total in the larger group; (In other
that is those which result from dividing the 30° sector by two and its words the distribution by years was the same for the control as for the
multiples. polio births).
We'can test the distribution pattern for the presence of the third An examination of the control group of birth-dates confirmed that
sub-harmonic of that 30° period (i.e. a wave of 10° in length) by the rhythms observed in the polio birth-dates were not, as will be seen -
dividing our original distribution round the circle into 36 sectors of later, conunon to births generally.
10° each and comparing the distribution in alternate such sectors. In order to obtain a further batch of birth-dates of polio sufferers
Fig. 11 shows the result of this exercise. The dominant 'note' here is recourse was had to an article which was published, with an appeal for
the basic wave of 10°—the 36th harmonic—but some of the sub- birth-dates, in the 'Infantile Paralysis Fellowship Bulletin'. TTiis was
harmonics are clearly to be seen.* not a very satisfactory method of acquiring data (since it introduced a
slight element of selectivity) and one would have preferred to extract
the information direct from medical records; however, no access to
such records was available at the time. Some 257 replies were received,
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not a large number but enough to test against the earlier results, and
these had the added element of accuracy provided by an approximate
birth-time.
The special feature of the results we have described was that the
distribution of the birth-dates (represented by the solar longitudes) was
dominated by the sub-multiples of the 12th harmonic of the annual
period. Not all this series of harmonics were equally important; the
12th itself (a wave of 30°) was insignificant in all three sets of results
but apart from that one and the 120th harmonic, which was outstand
ing, it was the lower sub-multiples of the 12th, that is the 24th, 36th
and 48th, which were most strongly marked both as to the amplitude
I of the waves and the consistency of their phasing. -
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i A complete harmonic analysis of all four sets of data (3 groups of
polio and the control) was done by computer from the 1st to the 180th
harmonic (the number of harmonics required to describe fully the dis
tribution for 360 separate degree-totals) and it was found that the
to - Infantile Paralysis Fellowship data agreed with each of the two
original sets of data even better than they agreed with each other. The
harmonics which were sub-multiples of the 12th were again very
1 r prominent in terms of amplitude and were in dose agreement as to
to
phftse.
ey
i »-» lO• To round this off on.a more technical note: As an appendix we
give the harmonic analytis for the three sets of polid data and the con
• Notably the 144th (4 x 36) and the 180th(5 x 36). trol from the first to the 50th harmonic'^ plus the 120th harmonic.
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What one is looking for in these results are rhythms which appear both
strongly and consistently in the data. All harmonics are present to
some extent in any complex wave form such as we are dealing with
here; the really important and significant harmonics are indicated by
high amplitude together with consistency of phase from one set of data
to another.
Fig. 12 shows, on the top, the geometric mean amplitude of each
of the first fifty harmonics for all three sets of polio data (the ampli
tude being expressed, for each harmonic, as a percentage of the mean
distribution). Beneath that is shown the phase angle required to cover
the difference of phase between the three sets of polio data for the same
50 harmonics. (A single pair of harmonics can differ in phase angle by
up to 180°: three harmonics may require up to 240° to cover their
phase difference.
It will be seen that among these harmonics only three, the 24th,
36th and 48th are outstanding both as to amplitude and phase agree
ment for all three sets of data. To these should evidently be added the
120th harmonic (a wave of 3°) which shows a mean amplitude for three
sets of 17% whilst a phase angle of 79° covers their phasing.^^
The details may be summarised as follows:
Stanmore Carsbalton I.P.P. Overall Control
Harmonic Ampl Phase Ampl Phase Ampl Phase Phase Diff Ampt Phase
24 12.5 118 10.2 107 8.5 50 68 6.5 139
36 8.4 147 15.9 185 18.1 186 39 6.5 331
48 7.7 176 12.0 239 11.1 226 63 6.7 236
120 11.5 133 22.2 54 20.4 112 79 4.3 9

In Figure 12 the overall phase difference

has been shown for each harmonic up to the 50th.
E.g. if the phase difference between the nth har
monic in data sets 1 and 2 is 30° and in data sets
2 and 3 is 60° in the same direction, the overall
Nc'!.-i3eR Of= • harnaomvc
phase difference for the nth harmonic is 90° as
shown right. If the corresponding amplitudes in
the 3 data sets are 2%,4%, and 8% the geometric
mean is 4% (cube root of the product of 2, 4, and
8). Of the first 50 harmonics only the 24th, 36th and 48th have overall
phase differences less than 80° and mean amplitudes greater than 10%.
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18
 Finally it may be stated that if the distribution of all 1,280 cases rather, of the terrestial revolutionary period—there is (on the basis of
is plotted in terms of the 12th harmonic—thatis the distribution in all this research) at least a prima facie case for supposing that the same
30° sectors put together, the series in which all sub-harmonics of the principles may apply in terms of other cosmic periods and this has in
12th are precipitated—then the resulting degree-by-degree totals show fact been shown to be so.^®
a deviation from the mean which would occur by chance only once
in 1,000 times (see Table).

-TABLE:
CONCLUSION
Polio Control
Degree Cases Cases
0 33 11
The ancient science of astrology treats of the symbolism of time
1 47 20 and of the symbolic relation of things brought forth in time to the
2 M 25 9 ideas which substand all generation.
3 1 45 14 TEST ON DISTRIBUTIONS Upon the great ocean of generation are rollers which span the
4 i ,1 47
58 16
centuries and ripples which are but minutes and seconds. All are based
5 12
6 53 20
upon the harmonics of cosmic periods which measure out the'motions
7 48 17
of the primary lives of the cosmos.
8 30 21 Polio cases: 'Time is the measure of the lives and motions of the cosmos'
9 26 20 X2=57.7 (Proclus).
10 46 17 0.1% level (such a distribution occurs, 'Time is an everlasting flowing image of eternity'(Plato).
11 34 22 by chance, once in 1000).
12 37 24 Modem research has shown that all the traditional lore of
13 56 19 astrology which has been handed down from remote times is based
14 36 18 upon the symbolism of cosmic existences and their periodic revolu
15 54 21 Control cases: tions but that it has in the process of transmission, become ossifled
16 46 16 X2=21.1 into rigid formulas and doctrines from which the illuminating prin
17 39 14 This value is exceeded by more than ciples have largely been lost.
18 53 20 half of such sets ,randomly distributed.
19 55 19 The key to the interpretation of the niunerical relationships within
20 41 21 the birth chart is to be found in the hierarchial structure of man and
21 49 19 nature by which all things are rooted in and priDceed,In due drider,from
22 38 13 the unity which is their cause and origin.
23 46 15
24 38 13
To recover the pure Pythagorean principles of number symbolism
25 50 17 as they relate to the microcoshl and the dynamic inteirelationships of
26 49 17 its parts and principles, is perhaps the foremost task of astrology today.
27 36 16
28 35 14
29 30 17

1280 512

To sum up, it is upon evidence of this order that the writer sug
gests that there app^rs to be a basis for the differentiation of geno-
types and the measurement of their susceptibility to different types of
disease to be found in th^e relationship of human births to the harmonics
of cosmic periods, and although the foregoing example has been worked
out entirely in terms of ithe harmonics of the annual solar period—or
20 21
 NOTES such experience—but from the total mortality figures of the Regis
trar General.)
^ See, for example, Prof. H. T. Eysenck writing in the magazine When the Sunday Telegraph received no response to its plea
Encounter: Aug. 1964. for an 'authoritative answer' to Mr. Lees' case, it tried again:
2 Astrology Reborn: J. M. Addey, Pub. The Astrological Association,
1972. aGARETTE CASE
® See, for example, the work of Prof. Michell Gauquelin of the
Laboratoire d'Etude des Relations entre Rhythmes Cosmiques et 'Last week we published the views of T. W. Lees, a
Psychophysiologiques, 8, Rue Amyot, 75 Paris 5, France: Now pub surgeon pathologist, questioning the current statistical assuinp-
lished in 16 volumes. French and Engilish ParaUel texts. tions about smoking and lung cancer. We invited authoritative
^ The Lancet: 4 Jan and 11 Jan. 1964. answers to this minority opinion in the confident expectation of
® The Lancet: 14 Dec. 1963. receiving them. We have received none.
® Smoking and Lung Cancer and The Wave Theory of Cancer 'This is astonishing and even alarming. Millions of pounds
Mortality by T. W. Lees, M.D.„ both published by the author. are contributed to cancer research. Surely there should be at
^ Smoking and Lung Cancer, (See Note number 6, above.) least one man in this vast medical industry to justify a belief,
® The Wave Theory of Cancer Mortality, pp. 27.(See Note number 6, which has been widely publicised and to which even the govern
above.) , ment has been committed.'
® In a letter to the Sunday Telegraph of 22 March 1964. The following week an 'answer' was printed from C. M^.
Le^tding medical journals have been very resistant to the publication Fletcher, M.D., F.R.C.P.,of the Royal College of Physicians Com
of Lees' work, as he himself avers. One of the few occasions on mittee on Smoldng and Health. He did not attempt to deal with Mr.
which hf was given a hearing was in the Sunday Telegraph of 21 Lees' evidence but wrote that:
Feb. 1965. In pubhshing his views, the Sunday Telegraph com 'Eight independent committees of medical men and scien
mented editorially: tists in fiye different countries and one WH.O. committee have
in the past eight years reviewed all the evidence on cigarette
smoking and lung cancer and have concluded that the explana
tion of the association of smoking and lung cancer is due to
CHALLENGE ON CANCER cigarette smoking being an Important cause of lung cancer ...
why. Sir, by your ill-informed attention to Dr. Lees ... do you
*So enormous is now the professional and financial interest seek to weaken doctors' efforts to save lives?'
> in cancer research which follows certain lines and so weighty is Since then there have, no doubt, been dozens, if not hundreds
^e ofSicial influence behind the campaign against smoking that more committees, all with large sums of money to spend. Each
It is virtually impossible for a critical view to appear in the year Dr. Lees' views and predictions have been ever more clearly
medical press. vindicated whilst no substantial progress has been made in justifying
the orthodox opinions as to the cause of cancer. Otherwise the
*With due sense of our responsibility to sufferers and their positions remain unchanged.
doctors, we publish this week on the opposite page the views of However the comparison of monthly totals—or rather their equiva
a pathologist who challenges current assumptions from the basis
lent in terms of twelve equal 30° sectors of our circle—do show a
of his own experience with a large number of individual cases. good measure of agr^ement.In 10 cases out of 12 the total births in
He poses questions arising from the statistics which no one has
each 'month' is not above average in one hospital group where it is
answered.
below in the other, or vice versa.
*The Sunday Telegraph will be pleased to give publicity to 12 An analogy may be drawn here with what sometimes happens in
authoritative answers. In particular we seek some explanation radio astronomy. When radio astronomers, for example, bounced
of why, if smoking causes cancer, this disease as it affects the radio signals off the planet Venus in order to pick them up on their
tongue and larynx should have dechned at a time of rapidly return and so measure the distance to that planet more accurately,the
Increasing smoking. That the Minister of Health may have signal which came back was so faint as to be lost amid the general
been wrongly advised seems incredible, but it is not impos random background 'crackle' from outer space picked up by the
sible.' radio telescope. But because the signal was of known frequency^ the
(One phrase in this statement should be corrected: Mr. Lees was ^tronomers could in effect filter out the random sound^ and so leave
not challenging current assumptions merely from 'his own experience the signal clearly detectable.
of a large nundber of individual cases'—^although he certainly had In just the same way, because of the thin ^read of cases (only
22 23.
 three per degree) our characteristic signal would not be visible in HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF THREE SETS OF POLIO DATA
any one 15° sector of the distribution pattern but, by collecting up AND CONTROL
two sets of twelve sectors, the random elements in each sector tend =Harmonic A=Amplitude P=Phase
Stanmore Carshalton I.P.F. Control
to cancel each other out and the signal is left showing.
H A P A P A P A P
The provision in the appendix of the harmonic analysis from the first 21.2 5
1 7.1 29 6.8 38 14.8 3
to the fiftieth harmonic is sufficient to illustrate the process involved 167 7.3 318
2 11.1 285 3.1 225 12.3
and to give the facts necessary for understanding the basis of the 3 8.7 211 10.6 286 8.6 117 8.1 225
calculations described in the text but the full analysis to the 180th 4 8.4 203 4.5 337 13.5 223 12.3 23
harmonic is available from the author. 5 10.9 13 8.4 318 1.5 183 5.3 349
The phase angle is expressed by treating each harmonic wave as be 6 4.9 32 8.4 301 3.7 15 5.9 129
ing 360° in length (no matter what fraction of the circle it repre 7 13.4 281 10.4 204 1.8 258 0.8 158
21.9 320 7.5 78
sents) and by giving the distance along the wave (from 0° Aries) at 8 0,9 156 10.4 250
17.5 187 13.8 358 8.0 345 5.9 80
which the peak of the wave comes. 9
10 6.2 24 8.3 42 9.7 259 8.0 37
7.5 169 10.8 308 7.9 352 18.4 199
0° ARIES cT ARIES 11
12 8.5 180 1.9 2 22.5 226 16.3 161
3.7 357 12.4 254 9.9 259 10.1 195
13
10.6 332 4.4 91 9.1 198 2.9 106
14
4.9 356 2.3 84 12.3 106 sn 296
15
O* €»o" leJ^ XTO fc 121 6.7 260
16 6.7 20 10.0 113 7.6
11.5 262 5.1 105 8.1 164 10.6 164
17
0.4 297 4.4 204 10.8 295 7.8 10
18
4.8 96 12.0 275 10.1 8 11.7 100
PHAS& — leo 19
3.6 184 9.9 310 20.0 146 11.2 189
20
22.4 49 3.1 48
See, for example, 'The Scientific Starting Point in Astrology' 21 10.4 133 1.9 205
9.5 82
22 10.0 287 1.8 108 1.5 134
(Astrological Journal, Vol. Ill, No. 2, March 1961), reprinted in 16.6 282 7.8 104 1.1 335
23 2.3 153
the year-book (1970) of the International Society for Astrological 24 12.5 118 10.2 107 8.5 50 6.5 246
Research, USA. 25 5.0 284 14.6 162 13.3 159 6.8 188
26 2.3 163 5.8 236 12.2 313 7.9 274
27 11.8 356 5.9 65 8.5 113 3.4 61
28 11.3 17 18.9 279 6.5 221 10.1 31
29 9.5 10 10.0 256 11.1 51 7.8 353
30 2.8 132 4.9 28 21.4 41 5.5 167
31 8.1 212 3.5 93 8.3 143 6.4 1
32 4.9 75 7.1 274 11.5 54 8.9 347
33 9.6 278 4.1 124 8.5 145 3.1 57
34 15.2 209 8.5 331 10.0 139 9.5 43
35 9.5 218 14.9 70 21.5 214 10.4 49
36 8.4 147 15.9 185 18.1 186 6.5 331
37 7.5 59 4.9 14 13.0 293 6.8 64
6.1 178 7.1 86 12.4 194 10.1 30
38
39 11.0 230 4.7 234 11.8 53 17.9 71
3.1 24 7.1 268 16.8 281 11.0 119
40
13.4 303 5.0 23 8.5 315 9.4 136
41
12.7 120 5.9 263 6.8 356 7.7 52
42
194 2.9 232 4.6 240 5.6 170
43 7.7
226 2.4 208 9.5 197 9.4 249
44 9.7
OPPOSITE 10.2 179 4.6 23
45 2.7 322 10.8 144
316 14.3 236 14.0 188 6.5 295
46 3.1
On the facing page wc give the harmonic analysis of the solar 47 9.3 312 11.9 150 12.4 211 13.1 151
distribution in the three collections of polio nativities together with the 48 7.7 176 12.0 239 11..1 226 6.7 236
control set. The significance of this analysis is explained on pages 17 and 49 5.8 227 8.9 120 13.5 151 10.3 245
12.2 141 11.3 177 8.1 57
18, and summarized diagrammatically on page 19. 50 5.8 28
112
120 11.5 133 22.2 54 20.4 4.3 9
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