My Favorite things about Microzymian Philosophy:
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What are the Microzymas? I can only answer in aphorisms, because of my ignorance, both of modern microbiology, and of the historic microbiology that took place in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, when these principles were developed. But yet I feel their importance in my bones. You probably think I'm an idiot for putting up this website. They are very small bodies distinguishable from Brownian particles in their movements. They are physiologically indestructible, that is, they do not die when the cells or the body dies. It follows that they are of "immense longevity" [p.viii.n.1. (all references are from The Blood... unless otherwise noted)]. The basic principle of life is fermentation, not __________ (I don't know what it was thought to be in those times), but I have put a quote about what Bechamp thinks constitutes life at the head of this page. Well, there's somewhere I want to go, it is 10 p.m.; even so I promise to continue this daunting project. I had started this day intending to have an early breakfast at the Library; because I received this book I didn't even get there until three o'clock, still crabby and unfed, and even now after a satisfactory meal including broiled bluefish I am much discombobulated and affected with too much coffee. I feel as though I shouldn't be on the Web with this at all, but one has to start somewhere and in this Virtual Reality, however stimulating or simply exhausting it can be, there can even be some of the transcendence often mistakenly attributed to it. Above all, do not get the impression from the superficial appearance of what I am saying that I do not know what I am talking about, or that there is no point to working with Antoine Bechamp's vision of the basis of life, or that I have no background in these matters, even though my biological knowledge is nil.
It is exciting to me but also frustrating to be a proponent of the the subject of this book and much of the other work of its author.
The microzymas are known to be living organisms because they can cause fermentation. It was believed that fermentation could be caused by purely chemical elements, or by living beings that arose through spontaneous generation. Bechamp's experiments disproved both of these hypotheses to his satisfaction. The microzymas can also die, although not under physiologic conditions. They also can be deactivated and altered to varying degrees. They can become diseased. Exposure to air has a profound effect on them. They can be seen to agglomerate in chains and form bacteria at times. The cell is ephemeral and transient by comparison, the microzymas are more basic because they form the cells and control their functions. Genetic tissue may be made of microzymas ("chromatin granules"). See Poem on a separate page.
Microzymas are not normally present in diseased tissue because they form bacteria. They are not present in dead or preserved specimens because they leave it. They are best visualized in living tissue viewed in dark-field microscopes; microscopy and microbiology have mostly developed using preserved and stained tissues and bright-field microscopes, including the electron microscopes. Thus microzymas are rarely seen in orthodox microscopy, so they are not recognized in orthodox modern biology. However, they continued to be studied by people like Royal Rife, Dr. Enderlein, Dr. Gaston Naessens (Ph.D.) of Canada, and last but not least, Wilhelm Reich.
Microzymas can be collected, washed, altered, etc. by appropriate methods. Next, the Germ Theory.
Last revised 01/17/2000MO (5760 - Martin Luther King Day).
11/4/99SA. Had a little brainstorm today when I picked up the Sunday Times. There is so much news about the Mars Lander. The purpose of the probe is to find out whether there is life on Mars. If the methods of determining the presence of microzymas had been used in the moon probe and for that matter in all extraterrestrial probes, the story might be far different than it is today.
MORE FROM THE BOOK: Added 01/17/2000MO:
Aphorisms from Author's preface:
There is nothing but what ought to be. --(Galileo.)
Nothing is created, nothing is lost. --(Lavoisier.)
Nothing is the prey of death: all things are the prey of life. --(The Author.)
For no reason, other than the fact that my understanding of these matters grows implicitly and "holographically," rather than by some systematic process, I am typing here the last few pages of the book. This is the end of a section called "Postface," which was "a note read before the Academy of Medicine on 3rd of May, 1870:"
"Creosote dries up the fecundity of the germs which produce disease, in conformity with the principles enunciated by me in 1857. The following experiment, while maintaining the principle, gives it a wider meaning and places it in connection with the first parts of this discourse.
"Beer yeast is a complete organism, though reduced to the state of a simple cellule. As an alcoholic ferment, in a sugared medium it preserves indefinitely its cellular form. But under other conditions matters happen differently. Beer yeast, it has been said, does not cause starch to ferment; that is an error; it causes it to ferment, but in a different manner to sugar --that is all. If it be introduced into starch of fecula, with some very pure calcic-carbonate (not from the calcareous rocks), the whole being creosoted to hinder the influence of germs of the air, the starch will be liquified, a fermentation will be set up, and the yeast disappears by degrees and ends by being replaced by an innumerable quantity of superb bacteria. The fermentation is acetic, lactic and butyric instead of being alcoholic. It may be said that it was the bacteria which were the ferments; granted, only observe that these bacteria are the issue of the beer yeast, of its microzymas. That settled, in other experiments, the same quantities of yeast, of calcic carbonate and of starch being employed, and double and triple the quantity of creosote; the starch was still liquified, the fermentation proceeded, but the globules of yeast were not destroyed, the bacteria did not appear. The yeast was not killed; the creosote in greater proportion has only resisted the evolution of these microzymas into bacteria.
"Creosote, which resists the blossoming of the germs of microphytes and of microzairs in fermentiscible media, preventing thus the commencement of fermentation, does not hinder a fermentation already commenced and where there exist already adult organisms. But in certain doses it is a moderating agent which, according to the last cited experiments, regulates the function of the cellule and of its microzymas, which it prevents evolving into bacteria.
"And the explanation of the role of carbolic acid and of creosote in therapeutics is easy to understand, if account be taken of the researches which have permitted this hasty resume to be made. These agents do not hinder the physiological functioning of the histological elements of the organism, but they arrest the morbid evolution of the microzymas, the too rapid destruction of the cellules, and tend, doubtless by modifying the medium, to bring back into harmony the functioning of the deviated microzymas.
"This recalls unavoidably the agents employed in the old therapeutic armamentarium which our fathers employed under the same circumstances; camphor, essences, musk, etc. It is true that it was empirically that they fulfilled the indications which, after many windings, we now supply like them, but in using new methods which henceforth rest upon experimental and positive date.
"And, in conclusion, I beg the permission of the Academy to repeat here something which Prof. Estor and I said in a recent work upon this subject:
"'After death (leaving here the domain of pathology to enter into that of the physiology of the species) it is essential that matter be restored to its primitive condition, for it has only been lent for a time to the living organized being. In recent years an extravagant role has been assigned to the airborn germs; the air may bring them, it is true, but it is not necessary that it should do so.'
"The microzymas, whether in the state of bacteria or not, are sufficient to assure by putrefaction the circulation of matter.
"The living being, filled with microzymas, carries in himself the elements essential for life, for disease, for death, and for destruction. And that this variety in results may not too much surprise us, the processes are the same. Our cellules, it is a matter of constant observation, are being continually destroyed by means of a fermentation very analogous to that which follows death. Penetrating into the heart of these phenomena we might really say, were it not for the offensiveness of the expression, that we are constantly rotting!"
--pp. 238-40.
There follows a list, which comprises, according to Leverson, the translator, the "memoirs and articles wherein may be found the historical succession of the ideas which have enabled the resume contained in the Postface to be written:" Not in any way to be construed as the whole of Bechamp's work, which, he says, is more completely listed in the Moniteur Scientifique (Paris) for December, 1908.
Then there is an "Index," which for some reason includes a table of contents, which is good to know since, for some reason, there is no table of contents at the beginning of the book.
At the end of Chapter VIII there is a list of twenty-eight items: "Under the form of conclusions is here given a succinct summary of the totality of the fundamental facts, the discovery whereof has led to that of the true anatomical and chemical constitution of the blood and to the explanation of its spontaneous alterations.
"(1) Ordinary air, near the earth, contains living microscopical objects called germs, and these germs are essentially microzymas.
(2) Proximate principles, and any mixture of such principles are unalterable in the presence of water, of a limited volume of air at ordinary temperature when a little creosote has been first added; and such proximate principles under such conditions do not permit any organized being to appear.
(3) Natural organic matters, vegetable or animal, tissues and humors, under like experimental conditions, always change of themselves, by a phenomenon of fermentation, and at the same time the microzymas, give birth to vibrioniens by evolution.
(4) The fibrin of the blood is not a proximate principle; it is a false membrane containing microzymas, whereof the intermicrozymian gangue is a specialized albuminoid substance.
(5) It is owing to its microzymas that fibrin decomposed oxygenated water, that it liquifies starch of amidon and that it can be dissolved, undergoing chemical change, in very dilute hydrochloric acid.
(6) The microzymas of fibrin in liquified starch undergo vibrionian evolution notwithstanding the presence of creosote.
(7) Fibrin liquifies spontaneously in carbolized water without the microzymas undergoing vibrionian evolution.
(8) The fibrinous microzymas are special; they can produce lactic and butyric fermentation in liquified starch.
(9) Natural albuminoid matters are mixtures, reducible by direct analysis into exactly defined proximate principles.
(10) The albuminoid matters reduced to proximate principles are very complex molecules composed of less complex ones, amides and their derivatives of the fatty and aromatic series. There exist of such less complex molecules, constituting an albuminoid molecule, quaternaries like urea, quinaries like taurine, which is sulphuretted; like hematosine, which is ferruginous; casein, in addition to the sulphuretted molecule, contains one which is phosphuretted; it has then six elements.
(11) There are several fibrins constituted as are those of the blood.
(12) There are a great number of different specific albumens which coagulation does not differentiate.
(13) The zymas are special albuminoid matters, likewise definable as proximate principles; they are always a functional product of the microzymas.
(14) The yellow liquid of the blood, besides its albumen, contains a haemozymas.
(15) The haemoglobin of the red corpuscle, reduced to a definite proximate principle, decomposes oxygenated water by its noncomplex feruginous [sic (typist)] molecule, haematosine, and becomes colorless.
(16) The red corpuscle of the blood is a true cellule, having a cell-wall and its proper content. This content is constituted especially of haemoglobin and microzymian-molecular-granulations, the microzymas whereof decompose oxygenated water as do those of the fibrin.
(17) The blood contains a third anatomical element, the haemitic-microzymian-molecular- granulations. It is the albumenoid atmosphere of these granulations which form, by allotropic transformation, the intermicrozymian gangue of the false membrane called fibrin.
(18) The flowing tissue is a content, whereof the vessels, arteries, veins and their appendages form the container.
(19) The three orders of anatomical elements of the flowing tissue only find their conditions of existence complete in their containers during life.
(20) After issuing from the vessels these conditions of existence being no longer fulfilled, the alteration of the flowing tissue commences.
(21) The microzymas of the different parts of the circulatory system possess alike the property of decomposing oxygenated water without being absolutely characteristic of them, for the microzymas of almonds and of other parts of plants and of beer yeast also possess this property. But there are animal tissues whose microzymas do not disengage the oxygen of oxygenated water.
(22) The microzymas, anatomic elements, are living beings of a special order without analogue.
(23) The spontaneous changes of natural animal matters, whether the microzymas have or have not undergone vibrionian evolution, thanks to free access of air, lead always under certain conditions to the complete destruction by oxydation of the product of those changes; that is to say, reduce them to the mineral condition, carbonic acid, water, nitrogen. But the microzymas under whose influence the oxydation is effected are not attacked; in such wise that all which is purely proximate principle in a tissue, in a cellule and in the bacterium, having undergone total destruction, the microzymas remain, and bear testimony to the existence of the vanished organization.
(24) The geological microzymas of certain calcareous rocks and of chalk, those of the dust of the streets and of the air also bear testimony to the microzymas which functioned as anatomical elements in the tissues of organisms of geological epochs even as they function in those of the present time.
(25) That which in the air have been called germs are essentially the microzymas of the entire destruction of a living organism.
(26) Normal air contains neither pre-existing germs nor the things which have been improperly termed microbes, supposed to ascend from age to age to parents resembling them.
(27) The air contains normally no pathogenic microzymas. The carbon bacteridium of Davaine is the product of the evolution of diseased microzymas, either of haematic- microzymian- molecular- granulations, or those of the blood globules.
(28) There is no living matter which is not morphologically defined; that which has been called protoplasm in the cellule always contains microzymas as anatomical elements."
--pp. 223-27
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