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GASTON NAESSENS'S PREDECESSORS work to his attention in 1981. Then, as now, standard scientific Patients hearing about Naessens's remarkable work for the first texts did not mention Béchamp. time often say, "If this were true, my doctor would have told me Guenther Enderlein (1862-1968) was curator of the Zoological about it." Scientists ask, "How is it that nobody else has seen this Museum in Berlin and the author of more than 500 scientific pub- somatid in human blood?" lications. He, too, saw a "thousand-headed monster" in human In fact, many researchers over the years have grasped pieces of _ blood and believed that a particle, which he called the protit, rep- this puzzle and have associated these pieces with the origin of resented an essential part of its life cycle. cancer. But for complex reasons, the news hasn't reached the As one interpreter, Erik Enby, has put it: "Any severe change average physician. or deterioration of the body's internal environment could enable Throughout much of the 19th century, it was in fact assumed the otherwise non-harmful microbes to evolve through specific that cancer was caused by a microbe. National Cancer Institute states of cyclic development into disease-producing forms..." historian Michael B. Shimkin has written: Protits can be seen under a dark-field microscope as tiny, shin- "In the early [18]90s, it appeared to have been a question not so ing points. Enderlein called the protit's life cycle the endobiosis much as to the infectious origin of cancer, but rather as to which complex, made up of 14 (rather than Naessens's 16) stages, and of the many parasites was the real causative agent." said it was fundamental to many diseases. But Enderlein identi- In his classic 1907 textbook, Neoplastic Diseases, James Ewing fied the protit with Mucor racemosus fresen, acommon mould. listed a total of 38 different organisms, including bacteria, cocci Royal Raymond Rife (1888-1971) began his career as a talent- and mycetes, found in cancer. Almost no one knew how (if at all) ed tinkerer. In the 1930s, sponsored by a wealthy employer, he these organisms related to one another. invented a unique "Universal Microscope" based on complicated 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 Royal Raymond Rife (1 888-1 971) prisms. There is a complete, dispas- sionate description of this remarkable instrument in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, February 1944. your. tn rae scientists then ne also saw strange organisms Rife also say range oreanisms opped, and it became very bad form . . . swimming in the blood. He focuse even to mention microbes and cancer in swimming In the blood. on a tiny "cancer microbe" which the same breath. . " refracted purplish-red light. He called For decades, this prejudice held up He focused on a tiny cancer this "microbe" BX. the discovery of cancer-related viruses. microbe" which refracted Rife also invented the Rife Peyton Rous, who discovered the . . Generator, which, when set to a partic- chicken sarcoma virus in 1910, was purplish-red light. ular frequency, could allegedly almost universally derided by his peers. . . Vindication cate only in 1966, when, He called this "microbe" BX. at the age of 87, he received the Nobel prize. Rife ran into fierce opposition and Belief in the bacterial theory persisted, died a broken man. Since publication however. In the 1920s, a brave Scotsman, Dr James Young, of Barry Lynes's book, The Cancer Cure That Worked!, there has recognised that some of the conflicting claims could be the result _ been intense interest in reviving Rife's pioneering work. oo of pleomorphism. He wrote: "Some at least of the organismal forms previously obtained Editor's Note: from cancer by different workers are in reality isolated alternative | See also "The Amazing Wonders of Gaston Naessens" in phases in the same cancer organis NEXUS 2/18, and "Royal Raymond Rife & the Cancer Cure that In our own day, Dr Virginia Livingston-Wheeler led a school of | Worked" in NEXUS 2/16. pleomorphic thought, that included Drs Irene Diller and Eleanor Jackson. Livingston called her organism Progenitor About the Author: . . crypotocides, i.e., "a hidden killer that also brings life". This was Ralph W. Moss, PhD, is the author of eight books and three very similar to the somatid. documentaries on cancer-related topics. He is an adviser on Naessens always credits some of the more prominent Western alternative cancer treatments to the National Institutes of Health, European scientists who have worked in this area. But the three Columbia University and the University of Texas. He research- thinkers who bear the closest resemblance to Naessens are a 19th- es and writes individualised "Healing Choices" reports for peo- century French professor, a German museum curator, and an ple with cancer. y professor, ; ’ For information on Healing Choices, contact coordinator eccentric American inventor from San Diego, known for a "ray- anne Beattie at 144 St John's Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA, gun" treatment device. . . tel (718) 636 4433, fax (718) 636 0186, or e-mail mail@ralph- Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908) was a full professor at mogs.com or visit website www.ralphmoss.com. Montpellier, Strasbourg and Lille, and an unsuccessful rival of the great Pasteur. His crowning achievement came in 1866 when he Contact Details for Gaston Naessens's Treatments: identified microzymas in the blood. These are almost certainly - CERBE (Centre Expérimental de Recherches Biologiques de identical to Naessens's somatids—which is remarkable, consider- l'Estrie) Distribution, Inc., 5270 Mills Street, Rock Forest, ing the crudity of the tools with which the earlier Frenchman had Québec, Canada J1N 3B6, tel +1 (819) 564 7883, fax +1 (819) to work. Béchamp wrote that "the microzymas are the only non- —_ 564 4668, e-mail cerbe@cerbe.com, website www.cerbe.com. transitory elements of the organism..." Cliniques Santé Levesque, 526 Boulevard du Séminaire Nord, Although Naessens is also French, he'd never heard of Suite 202, St Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada J3B 5L6, tel Béchamp's microzymas until author Christopher Bird brought the +1 (514) 348 4305. explode cancer cells. People were said to have been cured in this way in the 1930s at the Scripps Clinic. He focused on a tiny "cancer microbe" which refracted Editor's Note: See also "The Amazing Wonders of Gaston Naessens" in NEXUS 2/18, and "Royal Raymond Rife & the Cancer Cure that Worked" in NEXUS 2/16. About the Author: Ralph W. Moss, PhD, is the author of eight books and three documentaries on cancer-related topics. He is an adviser on alternative cancer treatments to the National Institutes of Health, Columbia University and the University of Texas. He research- es and writes individualised "Healing Choices" reports for peo- ple with cancer. For information on Healing Choices, contact coordinator Anne Beattie at 144 St John's Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA, tel (718) 636 4433, fax (718) 636 0186, or e-mail mail@ralph- moss.com or visit website www.ralphmoss.com. Contact Details for Gaston Naessens's Treatments: + CERBE (Centre Expérimental de Recherches Biologiques de l'Estrie) Distribution, Inc., 5270 Mills Street, Rock Forest, Québec, Canada J1N 3B6, tel +1 (819) 564 7883, fax +1 (819) 564 4668, e-mail cerbe@cerbe.com, website www.cerbe.com. = Cliniques Santé Levesque, 526 Boulevard du Séminaire Nord, Suite 202, St Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada J3B 5L6, tel +1 (514) 348 4305. 34 © NEXUS GASTON NAESSENS'S PREDECESSORS purplish-red light. He called this "microbe" BX. FEBRUARY — MARCH 2000