Science Gone Wrong
Review by Irene Alleger

The Curse of Louis Pasteur by Nancy Appleton, PhD
Choice Publishing, RO. Box 3083, Santa Monica, California 90403 USA
1999, softcover, $11.95, 191pp.

The history of allopathic medicine began with Louis Pasteur's "germ theory," the idea that organisms which cause illness enter the body from the outside environment, therefore killing off the germ invaders with a "silver bullet" (drug) became the medical paradigm of the 20th century. Pasteur's mechanistic idea of disease - finding the right cure (drug) for each germ, engendered the growth of the pharmaceutical empire and its dominance over medicine today.

About the same time, in the second half of the 19th century, two other men were investigating the causes of illness and coming to different conclusions. They were Claude Bernard and Antoine Bechamp, who believed that organisms already in the body caused illness only when the body became unbalanced and unable to maintain homeostasis, and they became toxic. The microscopy and laboratory science of the 1800's was inadequate to establish their claim, and the flam boyant Pasteur, with (since disclosed) fraudulent science and viewed the reigning medical authorities that his simple paradigm was a solution to the ills of man.

In the 150 years since the birth of this theory it has become so institutionalized that the subject is rarely discussed in medical circles today The germ theory of Pasteur became the foundation for the treatment of symptoms with pharmaceutical drugs - the established and official medicine of the Western world today. But was it correct?

Nancy Appleton's new book The Curse of Louis Pasteur, reviews the historical details of these men's lives and their work, providing interesting and telling anecdotes and quotations which bring them to life for the reader. Bernard and Bechamp were not the only naysayers. Gunther Enderlein, some 75 years later, was also able to postulate the existence of "pleomorphic" organisms and their cycles, and in the early 1900's, Royal Rife developed his revolutionary microscope which allowed the viewer to observe living microorganisms and their movement. Independently, Rife came to the same conclusions that Bechamp, Bernard, Enderlein and others had reached previously.

Today, the noted bacteriologist Gaston Naessens is studying what he calls "somatids" (what Bechamp called microzymas) in an effort to establish scientifically, the behavior and stages of organisms found in the blood. He also invented his own microscope, called a Somatoscope, capable of enlargement of 30,000 diameters, 15 times more powerful than current microscopes. His research shows that in a healthy body, the somatids go through three normal cycles, but in individuals whose body chemistry is out of homeostasis, they go through an additional 13, for a total of 16. When they go through their 16 pleomorphic: cycles, they change from healthy to unhealthy forms, to bacterial or viral forms. They end their cycles by becoming fungal. In other words, illness comes about from the internal changes in the body, producing toxic effects.

With state-of-the-art microscopy and computers, it is now possible to confirm these findings, but the entrenched pharmaceutical/medical complex would have to give way to an entirely new biology - one that puts people back in charge of their bodies.

That would drastically change our health care system. In a chapter titled "The Consequences of the Germ Theory," the author documents the growing mortality and morbidity caused by pharmaceutical medicines, now estimated to be the 4th leading cause of death in the US. This in spite of the billions of dollars spent on research. Are pharmaceutical drugs doing more harm than good?

What about the increasing evidence of superbugs - mutated organisms resistant to the drugs, and the fear of epidemics in the future? Could Pasteur have foreseen the consequences of killing off germs indiscriminately? The germ theory has taken responsibility away from the individual and given it over to the medical community where health care has grown into corporate business, with emphasis on profits, not health.

Nancy Appleton is eminently qualified to examine the effects of drags and vaccines on our health. In her previous books, she has emphasized the importance of homeostasis - the balanced body state - and has written extensively about the ill effects of our diets on the crucial mineral ratios of the body. In place of our elegant self-regulating system, the purveyers, of health care would have us believe we cannot get well without expensive, toxic medicines.

The author, a noted nutritionist, shows how an upset body chemistry initiates the many detrimental changes that lead to degenerativedisease, including the toxic environment which causes the microorganisms to mutate. Her scrutiny of Pasteur's work confirms the wrong road down which medicine has travelled in the past century. If Bechamp, Enderlein, and Naessens are right, we, and we alone, are responsible for the state of our health. The infectious disease epidemics of the past occurred because of unsanitary living conditions which provided organisms the proper outer milieu to become deadly. If the inner environment of the body becomes "unsanitary" it should not be surprising if it too, breeds disease.