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A PAPER ON THE BIOSTATIC AND ANTI-NEOPLASTIC POTENTIALITIES OF FORMALDEHYDE 
By
L.Hartford Van Dyke, Jr.


(Taken from an affidavit submitted by author 15 August 1995)


ALDEHYDES 


Pure monomeric formaldehyde, CH2O, upon keeping, becomes transformed into the 
polymer (CH2O)3 and the solution consisting of about 37% of formaldehyde by 
weight (formalin) polymerises to para-formaldehyde, (CH2O)n. 


The next most complicated aldehyde, acetaldehyde, when treated with a trace of 
sulphuric acid, polymerises into para-acetaldehyde, also known as paraldehyde. 


Paraldehyde (para-acetaldehyde) is employed medicinally as a sedative without 
action on the heart, and is administered intravenously as a hypnotic or 
anaesthetic. 


Since the organic properties of organic chemicals extend across a chemical 
series, it follows that para-formaldehyde and formaldehyde are at least 
anaesthetics. But formaldehyde is known to be a bacteriostatic. So we must allow
that formaldehyde could be at least a biostatic, or what might be termed a 
"strong" or "hard" anaesthetic. 


This leaves us with the question: Is formaldehyde a biostatic causing suspended 
animation, or does it cause chemically irreversible damage to living structures,
and is it therefore a deadly poison? 

SOME OF THE CHEMISTRY OF FORMALDEHYDE 


The chemical formula of formaldehyde is CH2O. Therefore, formaldehyde is a 
carbohydrate. Formaldehyde is the simplest sugar. Its structural formula is: 



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H
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  C=O
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H




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from which it is seen that a molecule of formaldehyde consists of a water 
molecule kept separated into its parts, in a potential energy state, by a 
central carbon atom. 

A molecule of formaldehyde reacts with a molecule of oxygen to produce a 
molecule of carbon dioxide, a molecule of water, and energy. Its energy delivery
equation is: 

CH2O + O2 ------> CO2 + H2O + energy 

A glucose molecule (simple sugar) consists of six formaldehyde molecules. 

Glucose= C6 H12 O6 = (CH2O)6 

Glucose has an energy delivery equation similar to formaldehyde. 


Formaldehyde, and glucose are all classified as chemiluminescents because, when 
they are slowly oxidised in an alkaline alcoholic solution, they cause the 
solution to glow. 


Therefore, we see that formaldehyde is technically a carbohydrate food source, 
capable of supplying energy for cell life under the proper conditions, and not 
necessarily a poison. 

Therefore, formaldehyde is a biostatic. 

ASPHYXIATION AND "BRAIN DEATH" 


When a person is asphyxiated, deprived of oxygen, as in drowning, the nerve 
cells of the brain are starved of oxygen and are said to "die", and to "die" 
sooner than other cells in the body "die". 


The brain relies on oxygen and fluid flow (plasma and blood flow) to get rid of 
its waste products. Its working parts are much smaller and much more intricate 
than muscle fibre (which can be cleansed by the physical movement of the muscle 
tissue). When oxygen does not arrive at the fine structures of the brain, the 
system starts to shut down and the waste products (of the chemical activity of 
the brain) accumulate and paralyse the brain cells, which then become biostatic 
(not dead), creating the condition known as "brain death", an improper term 
because death has not yet occurred, but the reversal requires a technically 
sophisticated process. 


In order to restore the brain action, the brain's waste products must first be 
removed and then energy must be provided to restart the brain function. 


While the waste products are being flushed out of the brain, new waste products 
must not be generated, or the brain cell paralysis will continue. 


Therefore, the brain must be put on standby in suspended animation by a 
biostatic substance. 


The application of pure formaldehyde solution would flush out the waste 
products, and bond the formaldehyde (carbohydrate) to the brain structure as a 
polymer, para-formaldehyde. This bonding is the well known plasticizing effect 
of formaldehyde. 


A transfusion of an intravenous solution, oxygenated by, say, a dilute solution 
of hydrogen peroxide, would then be used to clear out the free formaldehyde 
solution in the body to prevent a coagulation/plasticizing reaction with the 
next-to-be provided new supply of continuously oxygenated blood. 


Finally, a transfusion of continuously well oxygenated blood would be provided 
to the body. This oxygen would react with the formaldehyde (carbohydrate) which 
is bonded to the brain structure, and either carbon dioxide and water and energy
would result, or the formaldehyde would be oxidised to formic acid. 


Formic acid occurs naturally in animal secretions and in muscle. It is the acid 
which causes the pain of ant, bee, and nettle stings. In its concentrated form 
it causes blistering of the skin. 


If a pain phenomenon in the brain or body were to be caused by the formation of 
formic acid, then dripping a very dilute solution of aqueous ammonia into the 
blood stream should diminish the pain by neutralising the formic acid. 


Formaldehyde and formic acid react with ammonia to form aminoformic acid 
(a.k.a--carbamic acid), the simplest amino acid, and hence probably an 
assimilatable protein food for living structures. 


The infusion of aqueous ammonia before the infusion of oxygenated solutions or 
oxygenated blood, would allow the ammonia to steal the formaldehyde from the 
protein (and other) molecules (RNA, DNA). This would not be desirable if the 
oxygen must react with the formaldehyde in close proximity with the cell 
structures in order to restart the brain function. 

REVERSIBILITY OF FORMALDEHYDE EMBALMING 


Formaldehyde reacts with practically all types of organic compounds including 
unsaturated hydrocarbons, aldehydes, ketones, esters, alcohols, carbohydrates, 
proteins, amines, amides, and phenols. 


It is this versatile chemical behaviour which makes formaldehyde such an 
important intermediate in technical processes. 


Once formaldehyde enters a biological system and seizes control, the ordinary 
definitions of what constitutes life and death have to be completely 
reconsidered because chemical reversibility becomes the primary issue. 


A process for reversing pure formaldehyde embalming has already been suggested 
and described in the case of the treatment of "brain death" 


The success of the reversal of the embalming process when an impure formaldehyde
solution is used would depend upon the degree to which the formaldehyde 
dominated over all of the other chemical components of the embalming mixture. If
the formaldehyde was the most chemically active of all of the components of the
embalming fluid, then there might be an effective reversal of the embalming 
process. 

CAN FORMALDEHYDE BE USED AS A BASIS FOR TREATING CANCER? 

Here we must step into the field of immunisation. 


We immediately find that the solution used to generate antitoxins or toxoids is,
again, formaldehyde. 


As a practical example, the toxicity of the bacterial toxins is destroyed by the
treatment with formaldehyde to give formal toxin, which may be used to produce 
a high degree of immunity to disease caused by the toxigenic bacteria. 


The toxoid is usually made by exposing toxin to the action of formaldehyde 
solution for several weeks. The resulting product seems to be identical with the
original toxin in every respect except for the loss or reduction of its ability
to produce poisonous effects in man or animals. 


Again we see the cloaking action of the formaldehyde (carbohydrate) attached to 
other substances. 


If formaldehyde is capable of acting to produce a toxoid against cancer, then 
there is still the question as to whether or not that toxoid would survive a 
resuscitation process. 

OVERVIEW 


We see then that the toxoid phenomenon of formaldehyde is a cloaking action in 
which the formaldehyde produces a superficial resinous or plastic (carbohydrate)
surface or skin on an existing toxin. This also extends the explanation of the 
biostatic phenomenon and the anaesthetic phenomenon, and suggests that 
formaldehyde as a food, as a biostatic, and as a resin/plastic former might be 
used in many critical and lengthy surgical operations where (1) zero bleeding, 
(2) no stitches, and (3) an instant source of energy for recovery are important 
considerations. 


Ultimately, formaldehyde might prove to be the most versatile substance in 
medicine and medical technology. 

L.H.Van Dyke, Jr.
15 August 1995.




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