My notes from the book Beschamps or Pasteur? by Ethel Hume. Can be obtained from archive here.
Disease causation
- Since then I have seen with my own eyes and smelled with my own nose smallpox growing up in first specimens, either in closed rooms or in overcrowded wards, where it could not by any possibility have been ‘caught’, but must have begun. I have seen diseases begin, grow up, and turn into one another. Now, dogs do not turn into cats. I have seen, for instance, with a little overcrowding, continued fever grow up; and with a little more, typhoid fever; and with a little more, typhus, and all in the same ward or hut. Would it not be far better, truer, and more practical, if we looked upon disease in this light (for diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun-substantives):
- Pasteur’s Impact on Sericulture Dr A. Lateud, at one time editor of the Journal de Médecine de Paris, charged that whereas in 1850 France had produced 30 million kilograms of cocoons, its output had sunk to 15 million kilograms in 1866-7 due to the epidemic. After Pasteur’s methods of ‘prevention’ had been introduced, production shrank to 8 million kilograms in 1873 and as low as 2 million kilograms in subsequent years. He continued: “That is the way in which Pasteur saved sericulture! The reputation which he still preserves in this respect among ignoramuses and short-sighted savants has been brought into being: –by himself, by means of his inaccurate assertions; –by the sellers of microscopic seeds based on the Pasteur system, who have realized big benefits at the expense of the cultivators; –by the complicity of the Academies and public bodies, which, without any investigation, reply to the complaints of the cultivators: ‘But sericulture is saved! Make use of Pasteur’s system!’ However, not everybody is inclined to employ a system that consists in enriching oneself by the ruination of others.” Plainly his sins found him out here – at least with those who were in closest touch with the silkworm cultivators!
- Antiseptic Surgery and Lister’s Method Now Mr Lister, though a very skilled surgeon and, I believe, having great powers of observation, had established the technique of his operations upon the teachings of a man who had plagiarized the discovery without understanding the principle upon which it was based. Not unnaturally, Lister used doses of carbolic acid, which, when placed upon an open wound or respired by a patient, were lethal. But, thanks to his careful observations, he gradually reduced the quantity of carbolic acid or sublimate of mercury employed, until at last ‘his operations were successful and the patients lived’, as they would have done from the beginning, had he obtained his knowledge of the principles of antisepsis from their discoverer, Béchamp – who had warned against the use of any but a very minute dose of carbolic acid – instead of from the plagiarist Pasteur, who did not know why the dose should be so limited. From the outline I have now given you, you may form some idea of the ignorance of the man who, for more than thirty years, official medicine has been worshipping as a god. But this is only a small part of the mischief perpetrated. Instead of making progress in therapeutics during the past thirty or forty years, medicine – outside of surgery – has fearfully retrograded, and the medical profession today is, in my judgment, in a more degraded condition than ever before in its history.
- Forced Inoculations and Tyranny Now the forcing of these inoculations upon individuals by law is one of the worst tyrannies imaginable, and should be resisted, even to the death of the official who is enforcing it. English-speaking people need to have ideals of liberty refreshed by a study of the history of Wat Tyler, who headed one of the most justifiable rebellions in history, and although treacherously murdered by the then Lord Mayor of London, his example should be held up to all our children for imitation…
- Anti-Vaccination and the Dangers of Biologicals Dr Charles Creighton, said in Jenner and Vaccination (1879): “The anti-vaccinationists have knocked the bottom out of a grotesque superstition.” However, it has been revived, and needs some more ‘knocks’. The doctors will not willingly give up such a lucrative practice as the use of biologicals, and so parents and the public must do something to stop this blood-poisoning. What, then, can be done? I have seen a little girl, upon being vaccinated (or ‘inoculated’), go to school, promptly develop ‘leaky heart valves’ and die of ‘heart trouble’ about two years later, hardly ten years old. I don’t believe that either her parents, schoolmates, or teacher, or even the doctor concerned, saw any connection between the vaccination, or inoculation, and the leaky heart valves – but there was a connection – see my pamphlet The So-called Biologicals have Created a New Form of Heart Disease.
- Medical Tyranny and the Role of the A.M.A. In the whole history of mankind, the only adequate answer to tyranny that humanity has ever had has been the overthrow of the tyrant; and the A.M.A. and their cronies have certainly been tyrannical in their efforts to sell their decayed animal-pus biologicals for many years. I believe that if these efforts at compulsion, coercion or compulsory laws to force the use of any kind of biological or so-called ‘tests’ of any kind are pushed much further, they will lead to trouble.
- Germ Mutation and Its Effect on Medical Treatments F. Loehnis, soil biologist, and N. R. Smith of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have discussed this variability of germs at considerable length and conclude that any germ can break down into a filterable fluid and then develop into new forms that may be radically different from the original germ, their new characteristics depending mostly upon their environment. They believe this change is constantly going on in all groups of germs. Hence new strains are always being formed and are often more virulent than the old. Doctors Petroff and Branch add: “It seems that in spite of the vaccinations with B.C.G., and the sociological measures, the implantation with violent tubercle has taken place… Lakhms of Lithuania, studying 472 vaccinated infants, reports that he obtained 10 times more positive reactions in the vaccinated children than in the unvaccinated.”
- Tuberculin and the Fraudulent Use of Vaccines The real fact is that tuberculin never had any diagnostic value. It was not offered as a test on animals until its failure as a cure on humans caused the German government to forbid such use; in other words, the manufacturers ‘discovered’ or invented this new use for it to preserve a market. The ‘test’ on cattle circumvented both the prohibition and its ill-repute as a cure, thus continuing the profits, which is all it is good for. Read the account of the United States Agricultural Department’s ‘tests’ on animals infected with the hoof-and-mouth disease from vaccines, in Chapter 8. In Fasting and Man’s Correct Diet, The Tuberculin Test a Fraud (out of print), Immunity (also out of print), and Drugless Cures, I give additional evidence that the use of tuberculin was a fraud, utterly useless, and that more recent serums are no better.
- Heart Disease and the Rise of Vaccine-Related Deaths In November 1925, the Chicago Health Department stated that: “more children of the ages of 10 to 14 die of heart disease in Chicago than of all other children’s diseases put together!” If Dr Rosenow’s statements are true, do you wonder that Chicago children are dropping dead on the street, with all the serumization that is practiced in our schools? In the olden days, it was very rare for a child of 10 to 14 years of age to die of heart disease. Dr Frederick Hoffman, Consulting Statistician of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, said: “Heart diseases in all civilized countries are the leading cause of death and of a vast amount of physical impairment. As far as it is possible to judge, the relative frequency of heart disease in proportion to population has everywhere been increasing during the last two decades, although evidence to this effect is more or less conflicting.”
- The Serious Impact of Germ Mutation on Disease Treatment That this change or mutation of germs is a very serious handicap in treating diseases by means of serums or vaccines is indicated all through the series of ten papers that Dr Rosenow published in Vol. 12 of the Mayo Clinic papers. He says in Vol. 12, page 920, that the serum used on some guinea pigs ‘tended to localize in the lungs’. In Vol. 12, page 1001, he says: “Moreover, marked changes in the immunological condition as measured by agglutination tests have occurred in a number of strains following successive (intratracheal) animal passages.”
- The 1918 Influenza Epidemic and Vaccine Mutation In the pamphlets Germ Mutation and Immunity, Artificial vs Natural, I give some important evidence indicating that the 1918 influenza epidemic was caused by mutation in vaccines used to ‘prevent’ typhoid in the armies in Europe.
- Paratyphoid and Vaccine-Induced Mutations And these changes in the germs mentioned are of vital importance, as they often merely substitute a new disease for the one vaccinated against. Pasteur seemed to recognize the importance of this point as he vehemently denied its possibility to the very last, and made bitter personal attacks on Béchamp and other colleagues who opposed his ideas for this reason. Now that this has been proven so overwhelmingly, we can see how a vaccine for any one disease could start some other disease through these mutated forms. We shall then need more serums for the new diseases, and so on, ad infinitum.
- Typhoid, Paratyphoid, and Mutations in Vaccines In the pamphlets Germ Mutation and Immunity, Artificial vs Natural, I give some important evidence indicating that the 1918 influenza epidemic was caused by mutation in vaccines used to ‘prevent’ typhoid in the armies in Europe. When they inoculated against typhoid, they soon found that they had a para-typhoid on their hands, and the percentage of paratyphoid in those inoculated was identical to the second decimal place with the percentage of typhoid in those not inoculated. And when they gave two ‘shots’, one for each of these, they discovered a second paratyphoid, so to be scientific they called them ‘A’ and ‘B’. And, as scientists must…
Koch on Pasteur falsifying his papers
And according to de Kruif, Koch made a devastating attack upon Pasteur’s statements in a paper published shortly after this, in which he charged that practically all of Pasteur’s claims for his anthrax vaccine were false, that his vaccines were not pure, and that he had concealed the bad results that had followed the wholesale use of the vaccines. He closed with: “Such goings-on are perhaps suitable for the advertising of a business house, but science should reject them vigorously.” (p.168)
Criticism of Pasteur’s Anthrax Vaccine Sanitary Commission of Hungary (1881):
In 1881, the Sanitary Commission of the Hungarian Government said of the vaccine viruses used in the anti-anthrax inoculation: “The worst diseases, pneumonia, catarrhal fever, etc., have exclusively struck down the animals subjected to injection. It follows from this that the Pasteur inoculation tends to accelerate the action of certain latent diseases and to hasten the mortal issue of other grave affections.”
Disputes and Criticisms of Pasteur’s Scientific Integrity Turin Professors’ Critique (1883):
After about a year of dispute and passing the buck by correspondence, the Turin professors published a pamphlet in June 1883, containing some of Pasteur’s contradictory statements together with their cutting criticisms thereof, under the title Of the Scientific Dogmatism of the Illustrious Professor Pasteur, which was signed by six professors of high standing. This, by citing contradictory statements Pasteur had made in different papers, along with their comments, just about destroyed his theories on anthrax.
The Link Between Vaccines and Animal Diseases Horrors of Vaccination by C.M. Higgins:
Mr C. M. Higgins, of drawing ink fame, of Brooklyn, N.Y., some years ago wrote a book entitled Horrors of Vaccination in which he drew attention to the fact that official publications of the United States Government ascribed several epidemics of foot and mouth disease in this country directly to the use of vaccines or serums; especially those of 1902, 1908, and… Foot and Mouth Disease and Vaccine Testing:
Although they had found the disease in 8 herds on which the vaccine had been used, they decided to ‘test’ the serum, and what a test! They knew, or were very sure, that the vaccine had given the hogs the foot and mouth disease, yet the first four tests on a total of 52 animals were all negative, but they had plenty of perseverance, and in the fifth ‘test’ and on the 62nd animal tested, they found foot and mouth disease!
Germ Mutation and the Impact on Medical Testing Mutation of Germs and Testing:
With all the evidence we have given that germs can change their characteristics, from Miss Nightingale and Professor Béchamp, to Loehnis, Rosenow and others, how can anyone expect a germ to remain constant through any ‘test’ or remain true to its original characteristics after being ‘tested’?
Critique of Rabies Treatment and Vaccine Effectiveness Nitsch’s Study on Rabies and Pasteur’s Treatment:
“Nitsch has pointed out that in a large series of cases the deaths in spite of the Pasteur treatment occurred on average earlier than in untreated persons (64.5 to 90 days). There is some reason to believe that the rabies virus as it occurs in nature varies much in virulence, and that this is in some way related to the geographic distribution.” (p.21) To anyone who read Chapter 7 it will be…
Smallpox Mortality and Compulsory Vaccination Vaccination in Brazil vs London:
The Vaccination Inquirer of London, England, says that in Brazil, where they have rigid compulsory vaccination laws, and most energetic compulsion, the death rate from smallpox per 100,000 population in Rio de Janeiro for 1913–1922, a 10-year period, was over 600 times as high as that of London, where opposition is strong and the exemption laws are widely used! If these are only ‘accidents’ as the doctors undoubtedly will claim, they at least prove that vaccines are useless; but my contention is that the use of animal pus injections is the cause of the higher figures.
Bechamp discovered Yeast before Pasteur
Bechamp and Pasteur: Early Theories of Fermentation and Germs
Then Bechamp and Pasteur appeared on the scene, the latter, first of all, affirming the spontaneous origin of ferments, while, at the same time, Bechamp irrefutably demonstrated that yeast and other organisms are airborne.
Pasteur’s Struggles to Grasp Bechamp’s Ideas
He does not even seem to have been particularly quick in grasping the ideas of other people, for we have seen what a long time it took before he realised the correctness of Bechamp’s explanation of pebrine.
Bechamp’s Discovery of Microzymas
These same granulations he found in all animal and vegetable cells and tissues and in all organic matter, even though apparently not organised, such as milk, in which he proved them to account for the chemical change that result in the milk clotting. He found the microzymas teeming everywhere, innumerable in healthy tissues, and in diseased tissues he found them associated with various kinds of bacteria. One axiom he laid down was that though every microzyma is a molecular granulation, not every molecular granulation is a microzyma.
The Concept of Microsomes and Bioblasts
A modern text-book well sums up Bechamp’s primary teaching:—”Their behaviour” (that of the molecular granulations, here named microsomes) “is in some cases such as to have led to the hypothesis long since suggested by Henle (1841) and at a later period developed by Bechamp and Estor and especially by Altmann, that microsomes are actually units or bioblasts, capable of assimilation, growth and division, and hence to be regarded as elementary units of structure, standing between the cell and the ultimate molecules of living matter.”
Pasteur’s Conflicting Views on Fermentation
Superficial observers, among whom we are forced to include Pasteur, continued to maintain that fermentation was only induced by germs from the air; but at the same time Pasteur had to admit that meat, protected from atmospheric contact, in an experiment of his own, none the less, became tainted.
Bechamp’s Theory on Fermentation and Airborne Organisms
Bechamp, the first to make clear the fermentative role of airborne agents, was now able, according to his own views, to explain that fermentation might take place apart from these, for all organisms teem with minute living entities capable of producing ferments, and that, in fact, those found in the air he believed to be simply the same released from plant and animal forms, had observed in the cells and tissues of plants and animals.
The Role of Microzymas in the Body’s Development
He proved these granulations, which he named microzymas, to have independent individuality and life, and claimed that they are the antecedents of cells, the upbuilders of bodily forms, the real anatomical, incorruptible elements.
The Evolution of Microzymas and Bacteria
Thirdly, he set forth that the organisms in the air, the so-called atmospheric germs, are simply either microzymas, or their evolutionary forms set free by disruption from their former vegetable or animal habitat, and that the “little bodies” in the limestone and chalk are the survivors of the living forms of past ages. Fourthly, he claimed that, at this present time, microzymas constantly develop into the low type of living organisms that go by the name of bacteria.
Bechamp’s Influence on Pasteur and the Origin of Life
To him, it only appeared an inert collection of chemical compounds; and, therefore, naturally, after death, he recognised nothing living in it. Consequently, when life incontrovertibly appeared, he could only account for it by the invasion from without of those minute airborne organisms, whose reality Bechamp had taught him to understand. But the explanation of their origin from the cells and tissues of plant and animal forms took him considerably longer to fathom, though, as we shall see, he eventually actually made an unsuccessful attempt to plagiarise Bechamp’s point of view.
Microzymas and Alcohol in Post-Mortem Tissues
An indefatigable worker as his father, demonstrated the presence of alcohol in tissues shortly after death and its disappearance in advanced putrefaction, when he considered it to be destroyed by a continuance of fermentation due to the very microzymas that had produced the alcohol in the first instance.
The Microzyma and Disease
The microzyma is that which is primarily endowed with life in the organised being and that in which life persists after the death of the whole or in any excised part. The microzyma being thus the fundamental element of corporate life, it may become morbid through a change of function and thus be the starting-point of disease. Only that which is organised and endowed with life can be susceptible to disease. Disease is born of us and in us.
Questioning the Germ Theory
Queried: “Is it not therefore reasonable to conclude that these micro-organisms are certainly not causative of disease?” He also said: “I am bound to accept as a matter of fact the statements made as to the association of the ‘Loeffler bacillus’ with diphtheria; but to say that their presence is the result of the disease appears to me to be the more sound reasoning.”
Germ Theory and Immunity
The whole theory is rooted in a belief in the immunity conferred by a non-fatal attack of a disease. The idea arises from the habit of regarding a disease as an entity, a definite thing, instead of a disordered condition, due to complex causes; the germ theory of disease, in particular, being the unconscious offspring of the ancient Eastern faith in specific demons, each possessed of his own special weapon of malignity.
Vaccination and Smallpox Mortality
The illustrative example provided by Professor Wallace in that eighteenth chapter of The Wonderful Century, which he tells us elsewhere is likely to gain in the future the verdict of being the most scientific of all his writings. In it, he shows how free vaccination was provided for in 1840, the operation made compulsory in 1853, and in 1867 the Guardians were ordered to prosecute evaders, and so stringent were the regulations that few were the children who escaped vaccination. Thus the following table provides a striking illustration of the inefficacy of vaccination in regard to smallpox mortality. Year: 1899 – Cases: 267, Deaths: 78, Fatality-rate: 29.21% Year: 1900 – Cases: 246, Deaths: 113, Fatality-rate: 45.93% Year: 1901 – Cases: 85, Deaths: 37, Fatality-rate: 43.53% Year: 1902 – Cases: 63, Deaths: 12, Fatality-rate: 19.05%
During the same period, the smallpox fatality-rate among the far less vaccinated general population of the United States did not exceed 3 percent!
Questioning the Immunity of Vaccinated Populations
It is thus completely demonstrated that all the statements by which the public has been gulled for so many years as to the almost complete immunity of the revaccinated Army and Navy are absolutely false. It is all what the Americans call ‘bluff.’ There is no immunity. They have no protection. When exposed to infection, they do suffer just as much as other populations, or even more. In the whole of the nineteen years 1878–1896, inclusive, unvaccinated Leicester had so few smallpox deaths that the Registrar-General represents the average by the decimal 0.01 per thousand population, equal to ten per million, while for the twelve years 1878–1889 there was less than one death per annum! Here we have real immunity, real protection; and it is obtained by attending to sanitation and isolation, coupled with the almost total neglect of vaccination. Neither Army nor Navy can show any such results as this.
Case Studies in Vaccination Failure
In the same way, the experience of Germany and of Japan shows us that with much vaccination there is also much smallpox, while, perhaps, the Philippine Islands provide us with the most striking object lesson on record. Since the taking over of the islands by the United States of America, every attention has been paid to the perfecting of sanitation. But not content with this, their Public Health Service has seen to the thorough systematic vaccination of the population, adding thereto a considerable amount of serum-inoculation. For the result, let us turn to an American paper, published in Minneapolis, The Masonic Observer, of the 14th January, 1922: “The Philippines have experienced three smallpox epidemics since the United States first took over the Islands, the first in 1905–1906, the second in 1907–1908, and the third and worst of all, the recent epidemic of 1918–1919. Before 1905 (with no systematic general vaccination) the case-mortality was about 10 percent. In the 1905–1906 epidemic, with vaccination well started, the case-mortality ranged from 25 to 50 percent in different parts of the Islands. During the epidemic of 1918–1919, with the Philippines, supposedly, almost universally immunized against smallpox by vaccination, the case-mortality averaged over 65 percent.” These figures can be verified by reference to the Report of the Philippine Health Service for 1919, see page 78. These figures are accompanied by the statement that “The Mortality is Hardly Explainable.” To anyone but a Philippine Medical Health Commissioner, it is plainly the result of vaccination.
Smallpox Epidemic Statistics in the Philippines
Turning to those Reports, we find evidence that the facts must have been even worse. In his letters of transmittal to the Secretary of Public Instruction, Dr. V. de Jesus, Director of Health, states that in 1918 and 1919 there were in the Philippines, 112,549 cases of smallpox with 60,855 deaths. The Chief of the Division of Sanitation in the Provinces gives yet higher figures for the year 1919, bringing the total for the two years actually up to 145,317 cases and 63,434 deaths. So the verdict of Time pronounces against Jenner and Pasteur.
Pasteur’s Shift to Vaccines for Chicken Cholera and Anthrax
Midst researches on a vaccine for chicken-cholera, the etiology of splenic fever was unceasingly preoccupying Pasteur. Although a vaccine for the former complaint was the first he professed to discover, it was in regard to the latter that a great stir was occasioned, for Pasteur was called upon in various instances to test his method of vaccination. We will, therefore, leave to the next chapter a study of his methods against anthrax, which form the starting-point of that subsequent fashion for inoculation which has proved so financially profitable to the manufacturers of vaccines and sera and has so disastrously clogged the calm dispassionate advance of science with the pecuniary considerations of commercial interests.
Koch’s Postulates and Their Flaws
It is noteworthy that neither Pasteur nor any of his successors have ever induced a complaint by the inoculation of air-carried bacteria, but only by injections from bodily sources. Furthermore, the verdict of time is pronouncing upon the microbian rules very fatally, and even medical orthodoxy has reluctantly to acknowledge that “Koch’s postulates are rarely, if ever, complied with.”
Koch’s Rules and the Germ Theory
They made, in addition, the dogmatic claim that their so-called proof was not open to dispute, although in their theory confusion reigned until the German, Dr. Robert Koch, came to their rescue and formulated a set of rules for the recognition of supposed disease-germs. According to him, these must be: Found in every case of the disease. Never found apart from the disease. Capable of culture outside the body. Capable of producing by injection the same disease as that undergone by the body from which they were taken.
Pasteur’s Anthrax Experiment: Issues with the Methodology
This objection was put forward and in July some experiments were undertaken that were supposed to satisfy it, since the power of the vaccine was tested by a subsequent injection of blood taken from a sheep that had actually died of anthrax. But here again, it is obvious that the procedure was distinct from natural infection, especially as certain sheep remained impervious to the complaint although feeding on ground supposed to be pervaded by bacteria from the buried carcasses of diseased sheep. However, success seemed sufficient for a commercial asset to be made of the supposed prophylactic. It does not take much observation to note that pecuniary profits obstruct unbiased criticism, and thus real investigation was checked from the first by Pasteur’s alliance of science with commercialism.
Pasteur’s Critics and the 1883 Pamphlet
They published this communication of Pasteur’s together with their own criticism in a pamphlet entitled Of the Scientific Dogmatism of the Illustrious Professor Pasteur, which was issued on the 10th June and translated into French in August, 1883, and bore the signatures of Vallada, Bassi, Brusasco, Longo, Demarchi, and Venuta, men of high character and reputation.
Pasteur and the Commercialization of Science
It did not require much perspicacity to realise that if Pasteurian treatment could secure any appearance of success, the pecuniary advantages would be considerable. Thus Pasteur inaugurated the era that was to see the calamitous prostitution of science to commercialism. Bacteriological Institutes for experimentation upon living animals and for the production and sale of vaccines and sera came into being all over the world, modelled upon the one opened in 1888, in Paris.
The Claim of Pasteur’s Success with Rabies
The claim for Pasteur’s success is based upon the assertion that he reduced the death-rate for hydrophobia from 16 per cent to 1 per cent. But the late Colonel Tillard has shown in a pamphlet called Pasteur and Rabies, that the 16 per cent theory of death-rate before Pasteur brought in his supposed preventive must be ridiculously wrong. As the yearly average number of deaths for France up to then had not been more than 30, the number of the bitten, according to the 16 per cent estimate, says Colonel Tillard, should have been less than 200; but Pasteur, on the contrary, had 1,782 patients during the year 1887, which meant, according to this calculation, over 200 would have had gone.
Post-Pasteur Mortality Rates from Hydrophobia
As to this increase, speak only too painfully. Before Pasteur’s treatment, the average number of deaths per annum from hydrophobia in France was 30; after his treatment, the yearly average number increased to 45. The late Professor Carlo Ruata gave the annual average mortality from hydrophobia in Italy as 65 before the Pasteur treatment, and complained of increase.
The King of Greece and Pasteur’s Treatment
This screening of statistics prevents the inclusion of the death of the late King Alexander of Greece among the list of Pasteurian failures. The announcement was made, after a monkey had bitten the King, that expert advice had been summoned from Paris. Had the King lived, no doubt a paean of victory would have proclaimed his rescue through Pasteurian methods. As the King instead, unhappily, grew rapidly worse, a discreet silence was, for the most part, observed as to his treatment, the truth as to which, however, we learn in a bulletin received by the Greek Legation in London and reported in the Daily Mail: “Athens. Saturday. The King passed a critical night. His fever attained 105.6 deg. Fahr. and was preceded by severe shivering and accompanied by a fit of delirium, which lasted one hour and a half.”
Bites from Non-Rabid Animals and Hydrophobia Treatment
And not all by rabid, but many by merely “suspected” animals. Moreover, these animals include human beings, cows, calves, pigs, deer, donkeys, elephants, and almost every known species! Between the years 1912 and 1913 there were 114 patients who had been bitten by horses, and 80 who had been the victims of human bites! Thus we see that in a considerable number of so-called “cures” there is no pretension to the patients ever having run any risk from actual mad dog bites.
Pasteur’s Inoculations as a Commercial System
Pasteur’s inoculations for hydrophobia form part of a vast money-making system, in which the beneficiaries have no wish that any item should be discredited. The Kasauli returns are only a fraction of the monetary gains accruing in Europe, Asia, and America. A few years back, we were told by Professor Ray Lankester that the Lister Institute in London made £15,800 a year by the sale of vaccines and sera—a sum that seems likely to have increased largely. Thus we find science dominated by commercialism. Were it not for pecuniary advantages, there seems little doubt that the broth emulsions of spinal cords would have gone the same way as an older, less nauseous panacea—”the hair of the dog that bit you”!
The Era of Noxious Remedies
Seems to have been for “frightfulness” in medicinal remedies; but the witches’ cauldron itself never surpassed the noxious nostrums inaugurated by Pasteur in what has proved indeed “a new era in medicine.” It is the era for the injection into the blood of matter of varying degrees of offensiveness, the era in which animal experimentation, vastly increased, has found its sequence in experiments on human beings, and the credulous and the ignorant are everywhere at the mercy of the subcutaneous syringe and thereby swell the monetary returns of the manufacturers of vaccines and sera!
Sickness and Inoculation During War
In a pamphlet, Microbes and the War, by Dr. Walter R. Hadwen, we find a quotation from Professor Ernest Glynn as follows: “Sickness (in the South African campaign) was responsible for the loss of 86,000 men by death and invaliding (in nearly three years); yet the total number of officers and men, including native Indian troops, leaving the Gallipoli Peninsula on account of sickness from April 25 to October 20 may be stated as 3,200 officers and 75,000 other ranks! The total has since been increased to 96,000.”
Bacteriological Diagnosis in War
In spite of this general damnatory evidence, bacteriological diagnosis has done its utmost for statistical inoculatory success by giving every name except typhoid to intestinal troubles, which, by clinical diagnosis, in previous wars, would have been thus classified. The process of bacteriological diagnosis has been illuminatingly divulged by Lieutenant-Colonel C. J. Martin and Major W. G. D. Upjohn, Pathologists of No. 3 General Hospital, A.I.F. The exceedingly doubtful agglutinin reaction was the method adopted, and, with a candour as delightful as it was unconscious, these gentlemen confessed that in patients “previously inoculated” the development of typhoid agglutinins was regarded “with suspicion.” They went on to say that they “only diagnosed typhoid when the typhoid bacillus was isolated or when, the case being clinically typhoid, no paratyphoids could be detected.”
The Dangers of Frequent Inoculations
The great thinker and observer delivered this warning against only one form of injection. How much greater must be the danger in view of the myriad and frequent inoculations in fashion at the present day? We are reminded of an invalided Australian soldier in the medical ward of a London Hospital, who, upon being asked whether he believed in inoculation, replied: “Well, hardly! I’ve been inoculated against half a dozen complaints, and I’ve had everything I’ve been inoculated against except cholera, and I daresay I’ll be getting that yet!”
Smallpox and the Need for General Cleanliness
On the face of it, how futile to attempt individual safeguards against a disease like smallpox, which can only be eliminated in the mass by general cleanliness, while gruesome dangers, such as cancer, exhibit a hideous warning against playing with unknown quantities. We do not attempt to theorize upon the causation of malignant growths, but we would certainly point to their alarming increase. According to a statement put forward on the authority of the Cancer Research Fund, one man in twelve and one woman in eight over forty years of age are liable to this horrible torment.
The Popularity of Germ Theory and Vaccines
So long as the discovery of a “microbe” may assist to a medical knighthood and the discovery of a “vaccine” to a comfortable income, no one need be surprised at the popularity of the theory of causative disease-germs with its consequent system of inoculations.
Bechamp’s Doctrine and the Microzyma
The dangers of Pasteurism, moreover, have never been revealed in the light of Bechamp’s doctrine that “the microzyma is at the beginning of all organisation,” and that “every organism may be reduced to the microzyma.” Thus, if he be correct, our corporate life is composed of a united multiplicity of infinitesimal cytological and histological elements, each possessed of its own independent being. According to Bechamp, it is because every organism is reducible to the microzyma that life exists in the germ before it develops organs.
Hungarian Government’s Report on Anti-Anthrax Inoculation
The Sanitary Commission of the Hungarian Government in 1881, thus reported upon the anti-anthrax inoculation: “The worst diseases, pneumonia, catarrhal fever, etc., have exclusively struck down the animals subjected to injection. It follows from this that the Pasteur inoculation tends to accelerate the action of certain latent diseases and to hasten the mortal issue of other grave affections.”
Pasteur’s Ambition and Public Image
We, whose lot is cast in an age of advertisement, can appreciate Pasteur’s power in this direction. Never has anyone lived who was a greater adept in pushing forward himself and his theories. Ambition was his driving power, which an iron will held in harness. Before any triumph had met him, his mind was set upon honour and glory. Early in his married life, when, according to his father-in-law, Louis Pasteur’s ambition and drive were clear, he had already set his sights on recognition.
