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Antoine Bechamp

In 1932 a booked titled “Bechamp or Pasteur?” was published under the name E. Douglas Hume. Hume was actually a woman who had to ghostwrite under a male name to get her book published. Hume wrote about Antoine Bechamp, a contemporary of Pasteur. Bechamp was department chair at the University at Lille, France and the most respected professor and researcher at the time.

Bechamp was a talented and committed researcher who cared more for what was going on in the lab than awards, politics or personal appearances. He worked nearly everyday of his life until his death at age 93. Bechamp reasoned that it was not the pathogens that caused disease, but rather the condition in which pathogens lived. Disease happens when an imbalance causes some of pathologen (bacteria, viruses, yeast) to take over. What causes the imbalance? Poor nutrition, overloaded or weak immune system, stress. This seems like such a simple idea, but it is the fundamental question of the whole controversyto this day. Even Pasteur, agreed that pathogens do not cause disease alone. Dr. Price was convinced that the change from traditional diets high in vitamin A and D to “foods of commerce” was a significant factor in the rise of TB rates.

I encourage you to do a little research on Pasteur, you will discover the following:

• Pasteur had background no in medicine or physiology; he was trained as a chemist
• Pasteur likely created the disease known as “hydrophobia,” rather than found a cure for it.
• Pasteur started the horrific practise of vivisection. Still in use today, it is responsible for much needless suffering of animals.
• Pasteur was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people inoculated with his unproven vaccines, and indirectly for thousands more when disease was introduced by other unproven procedures developed by Pasteur.
• Pasteur was more a merchant than a scientist, with his frequent reporting of false test findings and fraudulent data, which always had two purposes: self-promotion and profiteering from the sale of drugs and vaccines that were often made mandatory by legislators.
• Pasteur’s methods of treatment actually killed Alexander, the King of Greece, for a disease he did not even have.
• Pasteur frequently avoided working on naturally diseased subjects, instead he introduced the idea of inducing sickness by giving disease injections into healthy subjects.

As for his Germ Theory, there was a great deal of opposition to it among many researchers of the time.

In a lecture given in London 1911, M.L. Leverson, MD stated:

“The entire fabric of the germ theory of disease rests upon assumptions which not only have not been proved, but which are incapable of proof, and many of them can be proved to be the reverse of truth. The basic one of these unproven assumptions, wholly due to Pasteur, is the hypothesis that all the so-called infectious and contagious disorders are caused by germs.”

Rudolf Virchow,the discoverer of the cell theory, with respect to the Germ Theory, commented:

“Germs seek their natural habitat – diseased tissue – rather than being the cause of diseased tissue.”

Virchow thought that the presence of germs identified a tissue as diseased, and was not the cause of disease. A weakened or diseased tissue was a target for pathogens, providing a hospitable environment in which they can thrive. Quite different from germs having caused the weakened tissue in the first place.

Bechamp graphically showed the same idea when an amputated arm was brought into his lab. The patient’s elbow had developed gangrene within eight hours after a sever blow, amputation was the only option to save the patient. Bechamp began to examine the severed limb using his microscope. To his amazement he found no bacteria in the gangrenous tissue. After a few hours bacteria began to appear, where initially there were none. Bechamp’s associate, Professor Estor, remarked “Bacteria cannot be the cause of gangrene; they are the effects of it.”

Robert Koch

Robert Koch was racing against Pasteur to find the cause of anthrax, which was killing great numbers of cattle in Europe at the time. He took blood from the diseased cattle and isolated bacteria from it and injected mice with the bacteria. Of the mice that died, Koch cultured their blood and compared it to the original bacteria from the cattle. His postulates are still memorized by medical students the world over as the foundation of the Germ Theory:

1. The organism must be present in every case
2. Must be isolated
3. Must cause the disease in a healthy host
4. Must be isolated again

Each postulate has been proven false, both at the time and even today, but his postulates are still basic tenets of the Germ Theory “religion”. Both anthrax vaccines that Koch and Pasteur developed were near total failures, thousands of sheep all over Europe were killed as part of the “experiment”. Both Koch and Pasteur did everything possible to alter and cover up the results of these failures.

Strike two

Koch developed the first vaccine for tuberculosis, using his postulates. The vaccine was called “tuberculin”. In Berlin, 2000 patients were inoculated with tuberculin. They died at a higher rate than TB patients who hadn’t been treated at all. Tuberculin simply did not work.

Even more upsetting to Koch was the revelation that the Prussian government had made an exclusive agreement with Koch to sell tuberculin and share the profits. This was a political disaster for the Prussian government and a huge blow to Koch’s reputation. It was also an embarrassment for the cause of scientific medicine when the prestige of the scientific method suddenly suffered this failure. Koch never recovered his credibility and today is only remembered for his “Postulates.” However Koch helped arrange the marriage of science and marketing, for which divorce does not appear likely any time soon, especially at present.

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