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Enderlein, in 1917, finished a manuscript heralded by colleagues as The country surveyed has been only superficially charted but, as a “opening totally new observations of the microbe world." It revealed _result of my exploration, my knapsack is filled with a heap of sketches, many different pleomorphic development phases of bacteriaand showed _that, given the time necessary to accomplish the task, would one day that illnesses and their healing processes are bound to exact cyclical and _—_allow me to prepare a map of the territory in all detail. morphological laws. In book form, this map could easily provide a tale as exciting as any The manuscript was published as a book, Bakterien Cyclogenie,(The told in the best detective thriller, All that is lacking is its ending, and Life Cycle of Bacteria) in 1925, shortly after its author's appointment as _the ending "devoutly to be wished" is that the labors of so many stalwart curator of the Zoological Museum in Berlin. workers in the field of microbial pleomorphic research will find their For inspiring his work, Enderlein gives great credit to Antoine _ fruits in the acceptance of their findings - and the applications of Béchamp as well as several Germans who took up where Béchamp left therapeutic modalities to which these have led - for the benefit of the off, including zoologist Robert Leuckart, founder of the science of _sick and the suffering everywhere. parisitology, and Otto Schmidt, who first reported parasites in the blood The first chapter of Dr. Enby's book was entitled; "Origins of a of cancer patients as far back as 1901. Medical Revolution." That revolution, still in progress is not over. Given the focus of interest at this meeting on darkfield microscopy, it Since Enderlein's book came out 65 years ago, its conclusions, like is of great interest to add here that only by working at this instrument those of Béchamp before him, have continued to remain did Enderlein learn that microorganisms go through a forming-changing unacknowledged by the scientific community as a whole. This is not cycle that, in his view, could take on countless variations leading himto because many other researchers have not bent every effort to bring out label the phenomenon a "1000-headed monster.” the = to —] yew a. veya tn4 — — He unequivocally asserted, while different types of microorganisms W@Y ack in 7 A sen acreMrCRCEE, Ur. P oy, wae normally live within the body in a mutually beneficial symbiotic much admired Enderlein's work, published, in the J ournal of Infectious relationship, with severe deterioration of the body's environment they Diseases, a 312 page article, "Microbic Dissociation”, based on work develop into disease-producing (!!) forms to create what he called conducted at the Hygienic Laboratory of the University of Michigan. In dysbiosis, or "a fault in the life process.” this article, Hadley foresightedly noted: ; Their action, said Enderlein, was not due to any perverse intent on the "It will probably be many years before a true appraisal of microbes’ part to harm it, but to their urge to survive at its expense! In Enderlein's contribution can be made. In the meantime, we may their early development phases they lived in the blood to perform regard with not little admiration his manifestly careful attempt to functions beneficial to health, in the later ones, they abandoned that role put a degree of order into the chaotic state of the study of bacterial to assure their preservation? cells. 1 believe that Enderlein has blazed a trail which, at least, in Since, today, Bakterien Cyclogenie has become virtually unknown, it many lines of advance, other bacteriologists sooner or later are sure is curious to note that, before World War II, it brought the researcher a to follow. 5 modicum of international recognition. It was Those words were written 64 years ago, but few have been the apparently well received at an international aE ; : bacteriologists to take up Hadley's challenge. biological congress held in Pittsburgh, | _-~ in Rife's opinion,. depending on its One who did take up that challenge was born Pennsylvania in 1930, and Enderlein’s | inner state, germs that arose within the | only three years before Hadley laid it down. We contributions were recognised by his being | the body itself, were not the cause but | *¢ in his presence today. In a life of devotion honored, in 1939, at the Third Microbiological fhe result of disease sates, and, isolation, half of it in his native France, the Congress held in New York City. other half in Quebec, the land of his adoption, he Despite nal attacks on him b rful has kept alight, and borne forward, the torch lit firs ig 2% ci Game iced community, Enderlein was and carried before him by Béchamp, Enderlein, Rife, Reich and so strongly supported by a few courageous colleagues such as the any others. physician and microbial researcher, Dr. Wilhelm von Brehmer, who Now he has emerged from cherished anonymity into the limelight at a identified as causal agent in the uncontrolled and malignant growth of symposium of his summoning to which you have come, many of you cancerous cells.” from far away, to hear what he has to say and to see what he has to Enby's book also filled me in on historical aspects of how the —_‘ Show you. doctrine that microbes were monomorphic - as opposed to pleomorphic It maybe that his discoveries will determine whether the field of - had risen to ascendancy, aspects which I had missed while researching microbial pleomorphic research will at last emerge onto scientific my paper on Royal Raymond Rife. center-stage. This rise can be attributed not only to the influence of Pasteur (1822- Will that emergence soon happen"? 1895), but also to that of Robert Koch (1843-1910), whose “principles” Is it "to be or not to be?" For that, as Hamlet put it in another are one of the "Ten Commandments” in microbial research, and his context, is the question. compatriot the naturalist and botanist, Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828- Let us salute Gaston Naessens and his triumphant accomplishments. 1898), who insisted upon the constancy of bacterial types and their classification into rigidly set groups and species based on their structure REFERENCES: ancl farm, . R1 The word “orthodox”, stems from Greek ortho - (meaning "correct", or "right", or Entrenched as dogma, the Cohn-Koch view was taught to many — even “upright") and doxa (“opinion”), the latter coming from the verb, dokein ("to think," Americans who went to Germany to study medicine after the tum of the — "to seem"). ‘Traced to its roots, orthodoxy thus connotes "opinions that seem, or are century and who, in turn, brought it back to the United States where, —_ thought to be correct." becoming the ruling outlook, it brooked no opposition. R2 Untranslatable into any other language, the word "maverick" denotes one who refuses to abide by the dictates of his group, in other words, a "dissenter". Most people REFERENCES: Rl The orthodox", stems from Greek ortho - (meaning “correct”, or "right", or even “upright") and doxa (“opinion”), the latter coming from the verb, dokein (“to think," ox "to seem"). Traced to its roots, orthodoxy thus connotes “opinions that seem, or are thought to be correct." R2 Unvanslatable into any other language, the word "maverick" denotes one who refuses to abide by the dictates of his group, in other words, a “dissenter”. Most people do not know that its etymology comes straight out of the cowboy culture of the "Old West" where the term was applied to an unbranded, or orphan, range calf or foal traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it, The English speaking word is indebted to an early Texas cattleman, Samuel A. Maverick (1809-1870) who did not brand his calves, for involuntarily donating his name to its lexicon. R3_ The world, and perhaps the only, expert on Reich's bion research is Dr. Beard Grad, professor of biological sciences recently retired from McGill University in Montreal, In his student days, Grad spent " much time working with Reich AG Continued on page 68 AHEAD What I have presented to you is only an account of a personal trek into the mysterious country inhabited by pleomorphic organisms. I gave it to you "piecemeal" so that you could share the uncertainties and surprises met along the trail that are normal to any exploration. NEXUS¢#35 APRIL-MAY 1992 ~~ IN LIEU OF A CONCLUSION: THE TRAIL WINDS