About this archive
“In this age of over specialization, with emphasis on chemistry, bacteriology, and mechanical and surgical research, we have lost sight of the over-all picture of man as a living being with lines of force working in fields of finer energies.”
The Digital Dr. Stone brings Randolph Stone’s books, hand-lettered charts, and their transcriptions together in a searchable archive. The Colorado School of Energy Studies created the original transcription project through its Associate Polarity Practitioner Class of 2010. The 2026 restoration preserves that work and adds new ways to search, cite, and read it.
Making Stone’s work searchable
Dr. Randolph Stone began self-publishing books and pamphlets in 1948. His books combined explanatory text with hand-lettered charts, putting much of their content beyond the reach of ordinary text search. The Digital Dr. Stone project turned those handwritten words into searchable transcriptions.
The Associate Polarity Practitioner Class of 2010 at the Colorado School of Energy Studies transcribed the charts. John Chitty provided the initial resources and asked how Stone’s work could be made more accessible. Lori Olcott organized the project and handled design and formatting, while David Harel provided technical support. Ten contributors shared the transcription and proofreading work.
Transcription and editorial work
The original team retained Stone’s spellings and phrases and added modern or American equivalents in brackets. They reproduced words inside illustrations in adjacent lettered lists or under Illustration Keywords so readers could search them. Editorial notes, bracketed equivalents, and additional keywords are contributions of that team, carried forward in this edition.
Lori Olcott’s proofreading checklist required comparison of the transcription, title, thumbnail, chart image, illustration text, links, spacing, and overall appearance with the original chart. It allowed capitalization to change for easier reading on a computer and called for consistent chart references and formatting. Proofreaders were instructed to report reviewed pages through a shared tracking system.
The original site’s maintenance instructions also specified two-digit chart filenames, with matching links and page titles. This naming convention is the basis of the document references used by the restored archive.
The 2012 award
In 2012, the American Polarity Therapy Association presented its Outstanding Service Award to the Colorado School of Energy Studies for the Digital Dr. Stone Project.
2026 Restoration
Andrew Todd Marcus restored and rebuilt the Digital Dr. Stone for the Colorado School of Energy Studies in September 2026. The restoration combines the school’s preserved working files with captures of the former public site from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Those captures supplied material missing from the working copy, including additional pages from Books 5 and 6.
The rebuilt site preserves the recovered transcriptions, the original team’s editorial additions, and the source images. Stable references connect books, text pages, charts, and figure details. Reconstructed reading sequences draw on contents tables, headings, and links. Original web addresses continue to lead to their corresponding pages in the rebuilt archive.
The original Illustration Keywords now form a browsable index linking terms to their charts and figure details. Search covers transcriptions, titles, headings, and figure captions, with filters for individual books and document types. Readers can also find a page or chart by its printed reference, including Roman-numeral front matter and volume-and-book references.
The index preserves original keyword forms and connects them to reviewed equivalents, including caecum and cecum. Spelling suggestions draw from the archive’s own vocabulary and appear as choices for the reader. Search results link to the matching passage, with highlights confined to the recovered text.
The reader supports side-by-side scan and text reading, in-place scan enlargement, copyable citations, and a saved reading position for each book. Navigation and indexing information are maintained separately from the historical text.
What this edition contains
Each document has a stable identifier based on its original filename, together with its book, document type, printed label, source, images, and reading position. Each source file has its own provenance, including an archive-capture date where available. The recovered text retains the original transcription team’s editorial additions; the new catalogue, reading-order evidence, and search aliases are maintained separately.
Coverage and edition dates
This edition contains 673 recovered documents across 7 books and 1 pamphlet: 156 charts, 494 numbered text pages, and 23 front-matter pages. The illustration index connects 337 terms to 444 appearances in the archive.
8 charts have a recovered scan but no recovered transcription. 37 image references point to 37 unrecovered files. The catalogue identifies 9 gaps or incomplete text sequences.
Source recovery took place on 2026-09-11. Version 1 of the archive’s data model (schema 1) was introduced on 2026-09-17. These dates identify this edition’s recovery and indexing work. Source-publication and web-capture dates are tracked separately.
How reading order is established
Contents tables establish some chart positions directly. Where a table is absent, headings, links, neighbouring pages, and explanations provide the basis for an inferred position. The archive identifies which kind of evidence supports each placement.
The contents table places Book 1, Chart 1 on printed page 33. The recovered Book 1 contents table assigns this chart to that printed page.
The position of Book 5, Chart 2 — Structural Balance Functional Contacts at printed page 15 is inferred. Book 5 has no equivalent contents table; a linked heading on the following text page supports this reconstructed placement.
Gaps and unfinished work
Some text and image files were absent from both recovered sources. The archive marks unrecovered text and missing image files separately, and distinguishes them from chart records that originally contained text without a scan. A gap in page numbering alone is not treated as missing text because charts also occupy numbered pages.
The original transcription status of unrecovered pages is unknown. The extent of Books 5 and 6 beyond their last recovered text pages is also unknown. This edition identifies those limits without supplying replacement text or inventing a final page count.
The original site’s launch date is unknown, and this edition does not certify that every page completed the original proofreading checklist. The source files, scans, and editorial conventions remain available for comparison. Corrections and reports of additional source material can be sent to the school.
Sources and provenance
- Original Digital Dr. Stone homepage: Project history, class credit, transcription conventions, and Stone quotation
- Original Digital Dr. Stone acknowledgements: Original contributor credits and the 2012 APTA award
- Digital Dr. Stone proofreaders' checklist: Lori Olcott’s instructions for transcription, formatting, comparison with scans, and review tracking
- Chart-filename maintenance note: Surviving project instructions for changing single-digit chart filenames, links, and titles to two digits
- Archived-file manifest: Capture dates and checksums for separately recovered public-site files
- Restoration import report: Sources, transformations, known gaps, and generated output for the restored edition
- Restoration repository history: Dated changes to the restoration, data model, indexing, and reader