Bechamp or Pasteur? A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology

Ashingdon, rochford, Essex: The C. W. Daniel Company Limited , 1947. Rare original issue in wrapper. Stated at copyright page: "First Published: 1923; Second Edition: 1932; Third Edition (Revised): 1947. Copyright in USA and UK by Ethel Douglas Thomson." Made and Printed in Great Britain. Beige cloth boards, minimalist cover and spine titles in navy, moderate shelf wear. Pages very good, clean; attractively toned, moderate tanning to endpapers. Intriguing frontispiece portrait of Bechamp: "Pierre Jacques Antoine Bechamps, when Professor of Medical Chemisty and Pharmacy at the University of Montpelier (1857-1875)." Small white label inside back cover: "Health Research, World's Largest Dealer in Natural Healing Books, Pasadena, 18-M, Calif." Interestingly, this dealer became a facsimile publisher of many out-of-print or rare materials concerned with health and suppressed subjects of veracity. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Rare original wrapper in beige, moderate edge wear, rub; unclipped 15/-Net, protected in new clear sleeve. Front flap contains Press Opinions; back flap with Medical Opinions; and, back panel features summary of this Third and Enlarged Edition. Rare very good original volume in same wrapper. Extended title page detail: "Founded upon MS. by Montague R. Leverson, M.D. (Baltimore), M.A., Ph.D with a foreword by S. Judd Lewis, D.Sc., F.I.G." Features original first edition Preface, and Notes to the Second and Third editions from the author. "Truth will come to light" - Shakespeare. Contents: "Introductory - Antoine Bechamp; Part One: The Mystery of Fermentation - A Babel of Theories; Pasteur's Memoirs of 1857; Bechamp's Beacon Experiment; Claims and Contradictions; The Soluble Ferment; Rival Theories and Workers; Part Two: The Microzymas - The 'Little Bodies'; Diseases of Silk-Worms; Laboratory Experiments; Nature's Experiments; A Plagiarism Frustrated; Microzymas in General; Modern Confirmations of Bechamp; Part Three: The Cult of the Microbe - The Origin of 'Preventive Medicine'; The International Medical Congress and some Pasteurian Fiascos; Hydrophobia; A Few Examples of the Cult in Theory and in Practice; Some Lessons of World War I and a few Reflections on World War II; The Writing on the Wall; Valedictory: Pasteur and Bechamp; and, an Index. Presented here is E. Douglas Hume's study of the ongoing gulf between the germ theory long established for control and profit as opposed to the terrain theory of healthy tissue and blood derived from nutrients available in the natural world. Do germs or unhealthy bodily terrains, more so lead to dis-ease? All who wish to understand the history of the germ theory of disease must read this 'lost chapter in the history of biology', and learn what the germ actually is and is not. "Germs" are always present but mostly only become an issue in toxic or unhealthy biological systems. Perhaps the most important fact of this remarkable book is the absence of adverse criticism since it was first published. The bacteriologists have few or no answers. This epoch-making study and comparison exposes Louis Pasteur as the original purveyor of "germs" who plagiarized and twisted Antoine Bechamp's discoveries and beliefs. Most of the medical establishment and health status quo adopted the theory of germs for their benefit and not yours. Includes a detailed nine page index and list of Bechamps works over three pages. Printed in Great Britain by The Stanhope Press, Ltd., Rochester, Kent. 263 pages. Insured post.. Third Edition (Revised). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.