Charles Wentworth Littlefield

Charles Wentworth Littlefield (December 17, 1859 - February 2, 1945) was an American homeopathic physician, surgeon, and prononent of a theory of archebiosis from minerals.

Background
By his own account, as published in the "One thousand American men of mark today" (1916), Littlefield was a self-taught practitioner, "admitted to practice by the State Board of Examination in Arkansas in 1886. In 1896 he received the degree of M.D. from the Kansas City Homeopathic Medical College, valedictorian of class. He has practiced medicine under the State Board of Examiners in Arkansas in 1886-90; in Kansas in 1890-97; in 1897-1909 at Indiana; and since 1909 at Washington. He is a member of the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy, Washington State Society of Homeopathy, King County Homeopathic Medical Society, and the American Institute of Homeopathy." After relocating from Indiana in 1909, records suggest that Littlefield remained in King County, Washington for the remainder of his life.

Saline for the Cure
"I can bring the dead back to life."


 * "DISCOVERS THE SECRET OF LIFE: Indiana Physician Asserts It is Volatile Magnetism, Which Exists in the Air." (newspaperarchive.com) &mdash; September 29, 1902 edition of Boston Daily Globe (p. 9)
 * "SAYS DEAD MAY LIVE - Amazing Claims of an Indiana Physician - HE OFFERS PROOF OF HIS THEORY" (news.google.com) &mdash; October 11, 1902 edition of New Hampshire's Nashua Telegraph (p. 7)
 * "BRINGS DEAD TO LIFE - An American Doctor's Claim - Dr. Littlefield of Virginia claims to have discovered a Saline Powder Which Quickly Restores Animation" (natlib.govt.nz) &mdash; October 25, 1902 edition of New Zealand's Christchurch Star (Iss. 7541, p. 4)
 * "Brings Dead to Life: A WONDERFUL SALINE POWDER" (natlib.govt.nz) &mdash; December 2, 1902 edition of New Zealand's Bruce Herald (Vol. 39, Iss. 93, p. 5)
 * "Doctor Discovers Secret of Life and Death" (weirdlectures.com) &mdash; 1902, source unnamed

Archebiosis by Design
"Ammonia, alcohol, and distilled water added to a quantity of salt..."

A selection of newspaper reports on Littlefield's claims to have created life in his laboratory:
 * INDIANA DOCTOR HAS CREATED LIFE? - With a Combination of Salt, Water, Alcohol and Ammonia He Has Developed Germs." (news.google.com) &mdash; July 25, 1903 edition of New London, Connecticut's The Day (front page)
 * "The Secret of Life" (natlib.govt.nz) &mdash; November 2, 1903 edition of New Zealand's Ohinemuri Gazette (Iss. 1170, p. 2)
 * "MAKES CRAB IN LABORATORY - Scientist Says He Has Also Produced Fish From Minerals&mdash;All Very Small." (news.google.com) &mdash; August 29, 1914 edition of Montana's Stillwater County Democrat

A more critical survey of the claims:
 * Charles Edward Tingley, "Littlefield and the Artificial Creation of Life" (archive.org) &mdash; September 30, 1905 edition of Scientific American (Vol. 93, No. 13, p. 263)

Rainbow Lamps
An instrument for the healing of the body and mind by use of light.

The Rainbow Lamp, patented on 27 August 1918 as "Therapeutic Light Apparatus" (US Patent No.: 1277089), is described as "an apparatus which may be employed to decompose light into its elementary colors and then to concentrate or collect a large number of similar rays upont he same area in such a manner that the rays of the same color from all sources will be superposed upon the same area."


 * See also: Rainbow Temple Association.

Blood, Salt, and Biblical Mantras
"...illustration that thoughts are things and their power may be expressed through certain mineral compounds, such as organic, vegetable, animal and human; and second that our thoughts may be formulated into charms or mantras according to a mathematical system called Personal Numerology or Mantras."

Selected Bibliography

 * "The Riddle of the Ages" (1905)
 * "The Twelve Vitalized Tissue Remedies: for private and domestic use, constituting a new science in the work of health and healing book" (1910)
 * "Harmony of Nature and Revelation"
 * "The Beginning and Way of Life" (1919)
 * "The Mind Control of Matter"
 * "From Mineral to Man"
 * "Archebiosis"
 * "Man, Minerals and Masters" (1937)