This book is about two rival scientists in the field of microbiology, Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp, in France in the late 1800s. The book was originally titled "Bechamp or Pasteur', and was first published in 1923. This edition offered here is new (unused) and very hard to find in print. It was published in 1989.
Antoine Bechamp was a renowned (at least among skilled scientists of Europe in the mid-to-late 1800’s) scientist. He conducted research which challenged almost every one of Louis Pasteur’s pronouncements. But in the court of public opinion, and in the view of science post-1900, Pasteur’s views are accepted and Bechamp became relatively unknown. Only inquisitive minds, interested in the truth, will question the “dogma” of the accepted Germ Theory of Pasteur.
Of note however, there has been a resurgence of interest in Bechamp.
Is it possibly due to issues arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and the rise of negative sentiments regarding that vaccine? Is it due to growing dissatisfaction with traditional medicine, and an interest in alternate medicine such as homeopathy, or cranial osteopathy, both of which salute people like Antoine Bechamp.
People wonder why studies published by the CDC show that approximately 40% to 44% of individuals who had COVID-19 were asymptomatic, which means they had no symptoms and never felt sick. "Why is that" they ask? If Germ Theory is correct, why doesn't a "virulent germ" such as Covid-19 attack all people?
Regarding the reasons for any illness, Bechamp and Pasteur, are diametrically opposed in their premises, with Pasteur holding to his germ theory (external invading germs causing disease) and Bechamp who holds that the “terrain theory" meaning that something about the terrain itself (the bodily environment) leads to illness.
How did this book get published? The author, Ethel Douglas Hume, was an adventurous British woman, who met a Dr. Montague R. Leverson in 1910. And during that conversation, Dr. Leverson introduced Ms. Hume to some of Bechamp’s concepts and she was very interested. (By the way, Dr. Leverson was an American who had encountered Bechamp’s writings many years prior, been very impressed with him, and went to France to meet Dr. Bechamp, just before Dr. Bechamp died).
And, to quote Dr. Leverson about Pasteur, “This plagiarist was the most monumental charlatan whose existence is disclosed to us in the entire recoded history of medicine”.
In time the author, Ms. Hume, was able to obtain a complete set of Dr. Bechamp’s writings, and decided to write this book about him; she uses Bechamp’s frequent arguments with Pasteur as a theme for this book.
This book is written in a rather dense and dry style, so it’s difficult for a person who has no scientific training. But with persistence, and using references (such as searches on the web), even a non-scientifically trained person can grasp all the conclusions of Bechamp’s work. And can certainly grasp the evidence which reveals Pasteur’s repeated fraudulent work.
Once a reader has finished this book, he or she will have a major question: how in the world has western science accepted Pasteur’s theories and rejected Bechamp’s views?
This book provides no answer for that question. But with further search, the answer to that question can be found.
To quote a 21st century homeopathic MD who read this book, "In short, Bechamp’s research forces all unbiased people to recognize each human has a spiritual component; even though all of Bechamp’s proposals solely describe physical entities taking physical actions. Whereas Pasteur’s work allows a person to view the human being in a purely mechanical manner; view the human being as a machine made up of parts, further viewing all 'real' illness as a 'parts malfunction'. And all of western science was moving in a mechanical direction in the second half of the 19th century. Hence Pasteur became society’s bearer of scientific 'truth”.
