Bechamp or Pasteur? A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology [True First Edition]

Chicago - London : Covici McGee - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited , 1923. Ultra-rare true first edition of this epochal volume. Stated at copyright page: "Copyright 1923 in USA and UK by Ethel Douglas Thomson." Brick red cloth boards, black cover and spine titles, some shelf wear, bow, cloth separation, discoloration. Pages generally very good, clean, some page roll; attractively toned. Moderate fox, bleed to endpapers. Intriguing frontispiece portrait of Bechamp adjacent to copyright page: "Pierre Jacques Antoine Bechamps, when Professor of Medical Chemisty and Pharmacy at the University of Montpelier (1857-1875)." Bind good; hinges intact. Rare near good true first edition. 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." "Truth will come to light" - Shakespeare. Features preface from Hume dated July, 1922. Contents include: "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 The Great War; 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 terrain or systems. Perhaps the most important fact of this remarkable book is the absence of adverse direct criticism following its publication. The bacteriologists have few or no answers so were rather silent on the subject. 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 eleven-page index and list of Bechamps works over three pages. Printed by Printing Products Corporation, Chicago, U.S.A. 296 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.