From The Cancer Chronicles #24-#25
© Dec. 1994 by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
In fact, many researchers over the years have grasped pieces of this puzzle
and have associated these pieces with the origin of cancer. But for complex
reasons the news hasn't reached the average physician.
Throughout much of the nineteenth century it was in fact assumed that cancer
was caused by a microbe. NCI historian Michael B. Shimkin has written:
In his classic 1907 textbook, Neoplastic Diseases, James Ewing listed a total
of 38 different organisms, including bacteria, cocci, and mycetes found in
cancer. Almost no one knew how, if at all, these organisms related to one
another.
Partly because of such confusion, and partly due to a growing enthusiasm
for radium and x-ray treatments, the whole "cancer microbe" search went out
of favor.
In fact, scientists then flip-flopped and it became very bad form to even
mention microbes and cancer in the same breath. For decades, this prejudice
held up the discovery of cancer-related viruses. Peyton Rous, who discovered
the chicken sarcoma virus in 1910, was almost universally derided by his
peers. Vindication came only in 1966, when at the age of 87 he received the
Nobel prize.
Belief in the bacterial theory persisted, however. In the 1920s, a brave
Scotsman, Dr. James Young, recognized that some of the conflicting claims
could be the result of pleomorphism. He wrote:
In our own day, Dr. Virginia Livingston-Wheeler led a school of pleomorphic
thought, including Drs. Irene Diller and Eleanor Jackson. Livingston called
her organism Progenitor crypotocides, i.e., a hidden killer that also brings
life. This was very similar to the somatid.
Naessens always credits some of the more prominent West European scientists
who have worked in this area. But the three thinkers who bear the closest
resemblance to Naessens were a 19th century French professor; a German museum
curator; and an eccentric San Diego inventor, known for a `ray-gun' treatment
device.
Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908) was a full professor at Montpellier,
Strasbourg, and Lille, and an unsuccessful rival of the great Pasteur. His
crowning achievement came in 1866 when he identified "microzymas" in the
blood. These are almost certainly identical to Naessens's somatids, which
is remarkable considering the crudity of the tools with which the older Frenchman
had to work.
Béchamp wrote that "the microzymas are the only non-transitory elements
of the organism...." Although Naessens is also French, he never heard of
Béchamp's microzymas until author Christopher Bird brought the work
to his attention in 1981. Then as now, standard scientific texts did not
mention Béchamp.
Guenther Enderlein (1862-1968) was curator of the Zoological Museum
in Berlin and the author of more than 500 scientific publications. He too
saw a "thousand-headed monster" in human blood and believed that a particle,
which he called the "protit," represented an essential part of its life cycle.
As one interpreter has put it: "Any severe change or deterioration of the
body's internal environment could enable the otherwise non-harmful microbes
to evolve through specific states of cyclic development into disease-producing
forms..." (Erik Enby).
"Protits" can be seen under a dark-field microscope as tiny shining points.
Enderlein called the protit's life cycle the endobiosis complex, made up
of 14 (rather than Naessens's 16) stages, and said it was fundamental to
many diseases. But Enderlein identified the protit with Mucor racemosus Fresen,
a common mold.
Royal Raymond Rife (1888-1971) began his career as a talented tinkerer.
In the 1930s, sponsored by a wealthy employer, he invented a unique
"Universal Microscope" based on complicated prisms. There is a complete,
dispassionate description of this remarkable instrument in the Journal of
the Franklin Institute, February, 1944.
Rife also saw strange organisms swimming in the blood. He focused on a tiny
"cancer microbe," which refracted purplish-red light. He called this
"microbe" BX.Rife also invented the Rife Generator, which, when set to a
particular frequency, could allegedly explode cancer cells. People were said
to have been cured in this way in the 1930s at the Scripps Clinic.
Rife ran into fierce opposition and died a broken man. Since publication
of Barry Lynes's book, The Cancer Cure That Worked! there has been intense
interest in reviving Rife's pioneering work.
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"In the early [18]90s, it appeared to have been a question, not so much as
to the infectious origin of cancer, but rather as to which of the many parasites
was the real causative agent."
"Some at least of the organismal forms previously obtained from cancer by
different workers are in reality isolated alternative phases in the same
cancer organism...."
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. is the author of eight books and three documentaries
on cancer-related topics. He is an advisor on alternative cancer treatments
to the National Institutes of Health, Columbia University, and the University
of Texas. He researches and writes individualized "Healing Choices" reports
for people with cancer. For information on Healing Choices, you can contact
coordinator Anne Beattie @ 144 St. John's Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217; Phone
718-636-4433; Fax 718-636-0186.
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