First Pulse : A Personal Journey in Cancer Research

By Merrill Garnett

First Pulse Projects in cooperation with Garnett McKeen Laboratory announces its first publication, First Pulse : A Personal Journey in Cancer Research, written by Merrill Garnett, edited by Bill... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966559703
• ISBN13: 9780966559705
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: First Pulse Projects Inc
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Thank you Dr. Garnett

Thank you, Dr. Garnett, for your many years of research, and for writing this magical account of those years. This book provides insight into cancer from the perspective of a researcher, rather than from the perspective of a doctor or patient - a perspective that offers a new vision of the disease. As a cancer survivor who has used the product created by Dr. Garnett, I believe it is well worth the time to read this book for anyone who has been touched by cancer.

The Pulse of Life: Electrogenetics

today i finished the book First Pulse, A Personal Journey in Cancer Research, by Dr. Merrill Garnett, kindly sent to me from Joy Garnett, whose paintings inhabit the pages of the book, bringing the abstract microscopic world of cell research into visibility. first, i must name my preconceptions of First Pulse, in what may be due to my own issues of mortality. upon receiving the book, i immediately looked at every of the book's numerous paintings by Joy Garnett. they are images at once ghostly and haunting, and beautiful and sublime, of various stages of cell growth and decay, in vibrant yet subdued colors, as if viewed through a microscope. this visualization of various stages of cancerous growth and subsequent images of treatment in painted form has the quality of a Francis Bacon painting. the horror of Bacon's Study of Pope Innocent X or Figure with Meat, are somehow aestheticized within the scraping lines of paint which at once blur and etherealize the subject. these same streaking lines are present in Joy Garnett's paintings, and my first reaction was an association of cancer with this Baconian visualization of horror. but, the paintings somehow made the disturbing mystery of cancer into something tangible, aesthetic, and even neutral. somehow, the beautiful painted light which visualizes scientific exploration and understanding portrays that journey itself as an artistic venture. the paintings illuminate the cancerous cell, and bring the science of an esoteric and highly specialized field of research into a public domain, where it should be. i would not have thought this to be true, but after reading the words of Dr. Garnett alongside the painted images of his daughter, i am left with a sense of awe at what First Pulse could represent- a new model of treating cancerous cells, based on electrical knowledge. Dr. Garnett took a different path for his research and experimentation. his dedication to understanding cancer centered around a belief that the model of killing off cancerous cells with toxic treatment was one model, and that there could be another model, based on the metabolism of energy in a cell. instead of destroying the cell, the treatment could restore the vitality of the cancerous cell. Dr. Garnett's search was on for finding such a treatment... only another electrochemical scientist could say what kind of personal journey it would be to have created and tested 30,000 chemical compounds in this search. but somehow, the quest for truth allows for such determination and belief. and it was the belief about this new 'electrogenetic' model of medicine which would ultimately prove rewarding. Dr. Garnett knew intuitively that there was a vital "pulse" in the cell, which was absent when the cell died away. to explore this dimension was to explore the question of life itself: that is, what makes something alive. in the technical language of medicine, the con