Germ Theory Of Disease Is One Of The False Foundations Of Modern Medicine
Joyce Marshall, N.D., Ph.D.
Pasteur realizes mistake!
Around 1880, Pasteur himself admitted his mistake regarding the
"Germ Theory of Infectious Disease." Pasteur finally realized that
microbial species can undergo many transformations. These facts
were not consistent with his germ theory and destroyed its very
basis. It is overlooked by modern medicine that Pasteur changed his
theory. Pasteur admitted that germs were "ordinarily kept within
bounds by natural laws, but when conditions change, when its
virulence is exalted, when its host is enfeebled, the germ is able to
invade the territory which was previously barred it." This is the
premise that a healthy body is resistant and not susceptible to
disease. With the advent of Pasteur's mysterious germ, medicine
cloaked itself under the guise of "science" and ever since has
succeeded in keeping the public ignorant of the true nature of
disease. Yet upon a theory so constantly at fault when thoroughly
sifted there has been erected a whole system of inoculation. Had it
not been for the sale of sera and vaccines, nowadays grown to
such vast proportions, Pasteur's germ theory of disease would have
collapsed into obscurity. Thus it can hardly be denied that Pasteur
committed an offense in dragging medical science down to a
commercial level.
Eminent bacteriologist Dr. Rene J. Dubos, the 1968 Pulitzer
prizewinner, contradicted the "germ" theory assumption by showing
that the virulence of microbial species is variable. Considering that
bacteria are not fixed monomorphic entities as the germ theory
insists they are, but are in fact, form changing or pleomorphic. Socalled
germs are not hardwired but are capable of adapting to their
terrain or environment. As more and more bacteria are becoming
resistant to antibiotics and actually using antibiotics as a food
source we are seeing an epidemic of virulent forms of pathological
bacteria.
At the Mayo Biological Laboratories as early as 1910 Dr. E. C.
Rosenow began a series of experiments in which he took bacterial
strains from many different disease sources and concluded that
they all had the capacity to change their structure with the changes
in their nutriments. The virulence of germs can likewise be altered in
the laboratory at will by the technician. This completely contradicts
the germ theory that states that diseases are due solely to invasion
by specific aggressive micro-organisms.
On May 10, 1999 U.S. News and World Report reported in its cover
story "The Battle of the Bugs" that common bacteria are building
resistance to most of the antibiotics on the market. Research into
new drugs has languished, and the public-health system is faltering.
Scientists are scrambling to come up with new plans. Common
bacteria are now so resistant to antibiotics that they can kill. Up to
40% of pneumococcal infections have become RESISTANT to a
variety of antibiotics. Doctors are resorting to increasingly powerful
drugs. In 1980, 876,000 prescriiptions for cephalosporins were
recorded for the treatment of acute otitis media. By 1992, the
number had jumped to nearly 7 million, a 687 percent increase. In
1999, 30 million prescriiptions will be written to treat an estimated
10 million cases of acute otitis media in children. (May 10, 1999 U.S.
News and World Report)
In 1993 H. Hugh Fudenberg, M.D., a pioneer in the field of
immunology, in an interview for the University of Natural Healing
explained, "I can trace down almost all of the cases of viral infection
or exposure to someone who has been immunized with a virus
vaccine." Dr. Fudenberg also explained that there is "a risk from
being exposed to a child who was just immunized." Dr. Fudenberg
further warned, "One should be cautious around recentlyvaccinated
babies, children, adults, and pets."
With the germ theory of disease we do not have to take
responsibility for sickness caused by our own transgressions of the
laws of health. Instead, we can blame germs that invaded the body.
The germ theory shifts our personal responsibility for health and
well being onto the shoulders of the medical profession who are the
ONLY ones who supposedly know how to kill off the offending
germs. Our own personal health slips from our control. We have
found a soothing complacency in placing the blame for our ill health
on malevolent, microscopic "invaders," rather than face
responsibility for our lifestyle habits. We have been educated to be
terrified of bacteria and to believe in the idea of contagion. We have
also been programmed to believe that healing requires some
powerful force to remove whatever is at fault. The acceptance of the
germ theory and widespread bacteriaphobia resulted in frenzied
efforts to avoid the threat of germs. The medical-pharmaceutical
industry began the relentless search for the perfect drug to combat
each disease-causing microbe. A whole new era of modern medicine
was inaugurated including vaccination, which was instituted to
confer "immunity" against specific germs by way of vaccines and
sera.
Not many people realize that germs, viruses and bacteria are the
result, not the cause, of disease. Bacteria have an important role to
perform in the vital process of healing. Germs take part in virtually
all disease phenomena that require the disintegration of refuse and
toxic matter within the body that the system is endeavoring to
remove. They act as scavengers in cleaning up the affected area of
toxic saturation. As soon as their role is complete, their numbers
decline. For this reason, bacteria are associated with disease
processes but are not its cause, for bacteria no more cause disease
than flies cause garbage.
Bacteria are capable of only one action in regard to the disease
process: the processing of dead materials as their food. Bacteria
proliferate because there is dead organic matter for them to feed
on, not because they suddenly become malevolent. It is
inappropriate to call bacterial activity an "attack" or an "invasion" on
the part of germs, unless we mean it is an attack on the toxins. The
only real attack that takes place is the one we make upon our own
body as we continually assault ourselves on the average of some
30 poisoning acts each day including the devitalized foods and
beverages we consume, the drugs we take, the vaccines we blindly
accept all of which create enervation and exhaustion of the body.
Pathogens cannot thrive in healthy blood. It is the environment and
the host that determine disease symptoms and the type of bacteria
that proliferate. Germs do not cause disease; rather, the body
generates disease occasions for the germ proliferation that takes
place. In order for a particular germ to exist, it has to have a
suitable environment created by the toxic and pathological pollution
saturating the body. Systemic poisoning then creates the specific
germ culture, depending upon where the body has accumulated the
wastes and according to the unhealthful lifestyle habits of the
sufferer.
The key point is that it is the diseased toxemic condition, where the
body is overwhelmed with poisonous waste, which creates an
environment favorable to the mutation of bacteria into those
commonly associated with particular diseases. The disease
condition favors proliferation and increasing virulence until their
function of devouring toxic debris is accomplished.
When a bacteriologist is asked what comes first, the soil or the
bacteria, the answer is always the tainted environment, in order for
the bacteria to thrive. Germs do not directly produce disease;
rather, the body-generated healing crisis produces the germ by
providing a suitable environment where non-toxic bacteria mutate
into toxic micro-organisms within septic surroundings. For germs to
become dangerous, they must be intermingled with concentrated
waste products before a germ metamorphoses into a toxic entity.
It is true that germs and bacteria exist everywhere, the microorganisms
only proliferate in the body when a person develops
toxemia as a result of an unhealthy lifestyle. A state of internal
cleanliness is essential for health and well-being. A pure
bloodstream, free unimpeded circulation of all body fluids, and
unobstructed excretion generate and maintain healthy tissue.
Virulent bacteria soon die in this environment for want of suitable
nourishment.