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Click to see big picture! Kirlian Photography was developed in Russia in the late 1890s. In 1898, Yakov Narkevitch-Todko, an engineer and electrical researcher, demonstrated Kirlian photographs produced by electrical discharges. In 1961, Dr. Semyon D. Kirlian and Dr. Valentina Kh. Kirlian of Kazakh State University, USSR, invested their lives in researching photographic techniques to document the electrical discharges that came from living creatures. They concentrated on recording techniques that showed the luminous Tesla discharges in the air surrounding an object which is subjected to a high voltage at a frequency that is too high to be perceived. "There are a number of pieces of electromedical apparatus for recording such images, typically from the fingers and toes, and the pads of animals. These are used for clinical diagnosis. The observed Kirlian patterns change with the person's mental and physical state and have been used as a qualitative indicator of the efficacy of a particular course of therapy and for certain diagnostic purposes. It is interesting that the acupuncture points of the body can be observed in this way (Mandel, 1986). Kirlian pictures of blood and other tissue samples have also been used for diagnostic purposes. The precise physical mechanisms involved in the formation of the Kirlian image are not known. |
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