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predict when some of his weaker patients would suffer heart attacks or asthma attacks because their
ailments seemed to come in steady 23-day cycles. He also discovered his patients went through
predictable up and down changes in their moods every 28 days. Swoboda also made one more
discovery. Halfway through every cycle, when a person's biorhythm crossed the zero line, something
very peculiar happened. On this critical day, as Swoboda called it, people seemed to have more
accidents, they got sick more often, and more people died. A zero day was even more critical if more
than one biorhythm crossed the zero line at the same time. When this happened, a person was even
more likely than usual to have a disastrous accident or become deathly ill.
While these discoveries were being made, an Austrian teacher named Alfred Teltscher got curious
about the fact that even the best of his students seemed to have both good and bad days. After keeping
special track of his students' grades and, after checking those of other classes, he noticed, that how
smart his students were seemed to follow a general pattern. Every 33 days, they would first do very
well in class and later do a little less well, flunking a few tests or getting low grades. This 33-day
intellectual cycle happened to everyone regardless of how intelligent they were.
For many years scientists have had clues that certain changes in a person's body and mind come and
go with a certain regularity. One of the most bizarre examples of this was the case of Mary Lamb, the
sister of Charles Lamb, a famous nineteenth-century English writer. Mary had unpredictable spells of
insanity that would disappear as suddenly as they appeared. When she was normal, Mary was a quiet,
pleasant woman who was devoted to her parents.
During one of her insane spells, however, she completely lost control of herself, killed her sick mother
and then tried to kill her father as well. Because of her brother's influence, she was saved from
execution and allowed to stay with him. While in her brother's care, Mary continued to have fits of
madness. Fortunately, her brother was able to spot these fits developing before they got too
dangerous. When they began, he would quietly put on Mary's straitjacket and lead her down the road
to a nearby asylum where she stayed until the madness passed.
Because of many such cases, some experts began to wonder if there were any connection between
biorhythms and the onset of insanity. Doctors in one New York State mental hospital noticed their
patients seemed to have sane days and insane days with some regularity. To find out if there really
were some patterns of insanity, the doctors kept careful track of when their patients seemed normal
and when they were insane. They discovered there seemed to be a new cycle of sane and insane
behavior that would start up every 28 days, the same length of time as the biorhythm for the emotions.
A Swiss scientist named Hans Schwing made another intriguing discovery when he decided to
investigate the cause of some car accidents. He had heard of the biorhythm theory and wanted to see if
there were any connection between biorhythms and accidents. Schwing got the birthdates of 700
people who had been in accidents and, in each case, figured out their biorhythm charts on the day of
the accident. He found that in well over half the cases, the accident happened on a person's critical
day, when one or more of his biorhythm curves were crossing over the zero line. Based on this
discovery, Schwing said a person is five times more likely to have an accident on a critical day than
on any other day.
The more biorhythms cross the zero line on the same day, the more dangerous that day is according to
the biorhythm experts. On the average, there are about seven days in the year when two biorhythms
cross the zero line on the same day. These double zero days, as they are called, are especially
dangerous if the two biorhythms involved are the physical and emotional ones. Even more rare and
more dangerous are triple zero days when all three biorhythms cross at once. This will happen perhaps
one time a year.
One deadly example of what the triple zero days can do is the case of Benny "Kid" Paret, a top-ranked
welterweight boxer. In 1963, he was matched against fighter Emile Griffith, in what promised to be an
exciting bout for the welterweight title. Neither Paret nor Griffith liked each other, and neither made
much secret of that fact. This mutual dislike promised to add a particularly interesting element to the
fight. Both men were at the peak of condition, and both were considered to be an equal match for each
other. For these reasons, boxing fans expected to see an exciting bout. The match was scheduled for
March 24, a day which, unknown to anyone, happened to be a rare, triple-zero day for Benny Paret.
The night of the big fight, the fans were a little disappointed in Paret's performance. He seemed a little
slower than usual and just wasn't punching as hard as he usually did. Emile Griffith took full
advantage of this. During round after round, he pounded Paret savagely. During round after round,
Paret stumbled out into the ring only to be beaten back into the ropes where he helplessly tried to
avoid Griffith's savage attack. Finally, Paret's body just couldn't take any more. After receiving one
last punch, he toppled to the canvas and lay there completely unconscious. Griffith was declared the
winner by a knockout.
Benny Paret never regained consciousness that night or any night after. After attempts to wake him up
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