Pasteur Exposed, The False Foundations of Modern Science by E.Douglas Hume

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 scientist in the 1800’s, a member of the French Academy of Science, whose qualification included Master of Pharmacy; Doctor of Science; Doctor of Medicine; he was a Professor of Medical Chemistry and Pharmacy.

Louis Pasteur was a chemist, and an average one at that. But he had a desire – and that was to become famous. He repeatedly made public pronouncements of the results of his experiments, without sufficient research, and he desperately lobbied the French Academy of Science to accept him as a member, despite his lack of qualifications. He pushed hard, and he pushed until he got himself, and his theories,  into the limelight. He was what we refer to today a “Celebrity Chemist.”

Bechamp conducted research, some experiments taking years to complete. He revealed that almost every one of Louis Pasteur’s pronouncements were a combination of falsehoods, plagiarisms and downright lies. But in the court of public opinion, and in the view of science post-1900, Pasteur’s name became revered, and his views are considered to be the epitome of truth, while Bechamp simply became unknown. Only inquisitive minds, interested in the truth, will question the “dogma” of the accepted Germ Theory of Pasteur. 

However, there has been a resurgence of interest in Bechamp that emerged during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. The flagrant contradictions, draconian ways, and deplorable results by the allopathic medicine establishment resulted in a palpable dissatisfaction with traditional medicine, and a blossoming 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” meaning that something about the terrain itself (the bodily environment within) 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.

Overall, this book is written in a rather dense and dry style, so it is difficult for the lay person to read. But it does detail practical experiments by Bechamp that everyday people can relate to, including isolating fruit from air, thus removing the possibility of being contaminated by bacteria, and then later discovering that the inside of the fruit had become rancid with bacteria. He did a variety of these experiments, using various organic matter and different ways of isolating the organic material from air with always the same result. It was consistent across the board. The bacteria originated from within, not from the air as Pasteur proposed. The results of these experiments were corroborated by Dr Charlton Bastian, M.D in England.

Once this book has been read, the question arises: 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 illness as 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”.