By William Miller
Summary: In this 1955 article from Health Culture magazine, Miller revives the Pasteur–Bechamp debate, or, as he calls it, "one of the greatest though little known controversies in the history of science." In the late 1800s, Louis Pasteur proposed that specific "bad" microbes, or germs, cause infectious disease. His colleague biochemist Pierre Bechamp thought "infection" had more to do with the environment within the host organism than with specific microorganisms. Miller says that Bechamp might have been right after all, citing observations made using Royal Rife's famous Universal Microscope, which appeared to show species of microbes morphing into other species depending on the chemical nature of their environment. (For more on Rife and his work, see "Rife Microscope: Facts and Their Fate" in these archives.) From Health Culture. Reprint 77, 1955.
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