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Book Review: The Curse of Louis Pasteur
The history of allopathic medicine began with Louis Pasteur’s “germ theory”, the idea that organisms which cause illness enter the body from the outside environment; therefore killing off the germ invaders with a “silver bullet” (drug) became the medical paradigm of the 20th century. Pasteur’s mechanistic idea of disease, finding the right cure (drug) for each germ, engendered the growth of the pharmaceutical empire and its dominance over medicine today.
About the same time, in the second half of the 19th century, two other men were investigating the causes of illness, and coming to different conclusions. They were Claude Bernard and Antoine Bechamp, who believed that organisms already in the body caused illness only when the body became unbalanced and unable to maintain homeostasis, and they became toxic. The microscopy and laboratory science of the 1800s was inadequate to establish their claim, and the flamboyant Pasteur, with (since disclosed) fraudulent science and data, convinced the reigning medical authorities that his simple paradigm was a solution to the ills of man.