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156 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
As described by Francoise, the experiment begins by extracting somatids
from the blood of a rabbit with white fur. A solution containing them
is then injected, at a dose of one cubic centimetre per day, into the bloodstream
of a rabbit with black fur, for a period of two weeks running.
Within approximately one month, the fur of the black rabbit begins to turn
a grayish color, half of the hairs of which it is composed having turned
white. In a reverse process, the fur of a white rabbit, injected with somatids
from a black one, also begins to turn gray.
Astonishing as this result, with its "genetic engineering" implications,
might be, the effect of such "somatid transfer" from one organism to
another also, said Francoise, produces another result offering great insight
into the role played by the somatid in the immunological system. "When
a patch of skin," she continued, "is cut from the white rabbit and grafted
onto the empty space left after cutting a patch of similar size from the
black rabbit, the graft shows none of the signs of rejection that normally
take place in the absence of somatid transfer." What this might bode for
the whole technique of organ transplant, attempts at which have been
bedeviled by the "rejection syndrome," we shall let readers—especially
medically trained readers—ponder.
GASTON NAESSENS: LIFE AND WORK
Is it not living in a continual mistake to look upon diseases,
as we do now, as separate entities, which must exist, like cats
and dogs, instead of looking at them as conditions, like a dirty
and a clean condition, and just as much under our control;
or rather as the reactions of a kindly nature, against
the conditions in which we have placed ourselves
Florence Nightingale, 1860
(seventeen years before Pasteur announced his germ theory),
cited in Pasteur: The Germ Theory Exploded by R. B. Pearson
Even a single discovery as striking as those made by Naessens in five interlinked
areas could, by itself, justifiably be held remarkable. That Naessens
was able to make all five discoveries, each in what can be termed its own discipline,
might seem to be a feat taken from the annals of science fiction.
And that is exactly the point of view adopted by the medical authorities
of the province of Quebec. Worse still, those same authorities have
branded Naessens an out-and-out charlatan, calling his camphor-derived
714-X product fraudulent and the whole of his theory about the origin of
degenerative disease and the practice of its treatment, not to add the rest
of his "New Biology," no more th a n "quackery."