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The Suppression of Alternative Medical Therapies 149
tures of 200°C and more. They have survived exposure to 50,000 rems of
nuclear radiation, far more than enough to kill any living thing. They have
been totally unaffected by any acid. Taken from centrifuge residues, they
have been found impossible to cut with a diamond knife, so unbelievably
impervious to any such attempts is their hardness.
The eerie implication is that the new minuscule life forms revealed by
Naessens's microscope are imperishable. At the death of their hosts, such
as ourselves, they return to the earth, where they live on for thousands or
millions, perhaps billions, of years!
This conclusion—mind-boggling on the face of it—is not one that
sprang full-blown from Naessens mind alone. A few years ago, I came
across a fascinating doctoral dissertation, published as a book, authored
by a pharmacist living in France named Marie Nonclercq.
Several years in the writing, Nonclercq's thesis delved into a long-lost
chapter in the history of science that has all but been forgotten for more
than a century. This chapter concerned a violent controversy between, on
the one side, the illustrious Louis Pasteur, whose name, inscribed on the
lintels of research institutes all over the world, is known to all schoolchildren,
if only because of the pasteurized milk they drink.
On the other side was Pasteur's nineteenth-century contemporary and
adversary, Antoine Bechamp, who first worked in Strasbourg as a professor
of physics and toxicology at the Higher School of Pharmacy, later as
professor of medical chemistry at the University of Montpellier, and, later
still, as professor of biochemistry and dean of faculty of medicine at the
University of Lille, all in France.
While laboring on problems of fermentation, the breakdown of complex
molecules into organic compounds via "ferment"—one need only think of
curdling milk by bacteria—Bechamp, at his microscope, far more primitive
that Naessens's own instrument, seemed able to descry a host of tiny bodies
in his fermenting solutions. Even before Bechamp's time, other researchers
had observed, but passed off as unexplainable, what they called "scintillating
corpuscles" or "molecular granulations." Bechamp, who was able to ascribe
strong enzymatic (catalytic change-causing) reactions to them, was led to
coin a new word to describe them: microzymas (tiny ferments).
Among these ferments' many peculiar characteristics was one showing
that, whereas they did not exist in chemically pure calcium carbonate
made in a laboratory under artificial conditions, they were abundantly present
in natural calcium carbonate, commonly known as chalk. For this reason,
the latter could, for instance, easily "invert" [ferment] cane sugar
solutions, while the former could not.
With the collaboration of his son, Joseph, and Alfred Estor, a Montpellier
physician and surgeon, Bechamp went on to study microzymas