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TELL ME SIMPLY

(All about Nature Cure and the Germ Theory)

by

Kenneth S. Jeffrey

2nd Edition

Number 14 of a Series

Copyright 1980

No part of this book may be published in any manner without permission of the
publisher.

STATEMENT BY THE PUBLISHER

The opinions expressed in this book are based on the Naturopathic philosophy of
health and do not coincide with currently-accepted medical theories of health and
healing. The publisher does not claim that any advice given herein constitutes a
“cure” for disease.
WHY I WROTE THIS BOOKLET
Section 1:

I am often asked if there is a small booklet, which can be given to a

friend who is looking for information on Natural Health.
There are several books available but they are mostly written for
those who already know something about Natural Health and who
understand the meaning of the words used.
I have been told that many of these books are not easy for the
newcomer to understand.
So, I thought it might be useful to write something, which even a
child could understand clearly.
In this booklet I will try to tell my readers as simply as possible
what Natural Health is, and why it is worth learning about.
I will try not to use any long or difficult words but I hope that the
meaning of Natural Health will be made clear just the same.

Section 2:
This section deals simply with the naturopathic refutation of the
germ theory.

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TELL ME SIMPLY
Some writers on Natural Health may not have made their message
clear enough.
They sometimes use long technical words, which few people
normally use.
The result is that the meaning of Natural Health is often hard to
understand.
People become confused and feel that Natural Health is too
complicated and hard for them to follow.
If this is so, then it is a great pity because Natural Health is really
very easy to understand, and it is not too hard to follow.
First, I must tell you what the words Natural Health mean to me.
The term Natural Health is what is called a “blanket” term.
It covers several things.
The two things we are interested in at present are:
1. Natural Living and
2. Natural Healing.
Natural Health means two things:
1. The way to keep healthy and…
2. The way to get your health back when you are sick.
So Natural Health covers the means by which we can keep healthy
and the means by which sick people can be got well again.
Having said that, I must explain why we are suggesting that people
should adopt the Natural way to health instead of using the
medical way, which is so well known.
There are two systems of health.
• One is called the medical system and
• The other is called the natural system.

Medical System
• In the medical system all kinds of substances and treatments
are used with the idea of getting health and keeping it.

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 • In the medical system the custom is to take medicines or to
do things that are designed to stop us from becoming sick.
• If we are already sick, there are substances called medicines
that we are advised to use to make us well again.
• Injections are used extensively with the aim of immunising us
so we will not become sick.
Note: When the author talks about medicines, he is including ALL
medicines that may be taken to “cure” a symptom.
These may include homeopathic, herbal, flower, vitamin, as well as
allopathic (pharmaceutical/medical)

Natural System
• In the system called Natural Health, medicines are not used.
• We say that the human body is meant to be healthy.
• It is natural for us to be healthy.
• If we are sick, we must have done something that has
created the sickness.
• We say that it will also keep healthy if we care for it properly.
• We say that it will also heal itself (if it becomes sick) if we
look after it properly.
If we look after our bodies correctly and keep ourselves
healthy, we call this Natural Living.
If we care for the body correctly when it is sick, we call this
Natural Healing.
There are several names given to Natural Healing such as:
• Nature Cure,
• Naturopathy
• Natural Hygiene
But they all mean the same thing - It is simply healing without
medicines.
What do we do?
• How does the human body normally keep itself healthy?
• Is there anything special that we have to do so we will not
become ill?

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Human beings are like all other animals. They need certain things
so they can live and remain healthy.
• We need clothing and shelter to protect us against rain, wind,
dust, heat and cold.
• We need security so other animals will not attack and kill us.
• We need the special kind of food, which is best for us.
• We need to keep the body clean.
• We need exercise and rest.
• We need restful sleep.
• We need suitable surroundings and a happy disposition.
• Of course, we also need suitable work, recreation, sports
and amusements to make life fully enjoyable.

Life Style
All of these things, when combined make up what we call our life
style.
Life-style is very important because we claim that the kind of life
we have has a great deal to do with the kind of health we have.
• We say that many millions of people have a poor standard of
health, and suffer from many diseases because their life-
style is wrong.
• We say that by changing the life-style, it is possible to enjoy
better health.
• We also say that it is often possible for sick people to recover
their lost health in this way.
If this is true, the life-style we have is very important.
The kind of life-style, which is used by most people, is in our view,
quite wrong.
• People eat the wrong kinds of foods.
• They eat too much food.
• They eat too many meals, and
• They eat between meals.
• They do not keep their bodies clean.

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 • They do not get enough vigorous exercise. Some people do
get some exercise, but it is not vigorous enough to keep
them healthy.
• They do not expose their bodies to direct sunlight often
enough.
• They keep late nights and do not get enough restful sleep.
• Some people are employed doing unpleasant work under
most unsuitable conditions of heat, cold, dust, noise and
vibration.
• More and more people are taking addictive drugs.
• The air is being poisoned by gases from motor cars and
factories.
These are just a few things, which make for a bad life-style.

A good life-style is one in which we:

• Eat mainly suitable foods.
• We keep our bodies clean.
• We exercise regularly and vigorously enough to keep our
muscles in good condition.
• We get enough restful sleep to enable us to recover fully
from the work of the previous day.
• Our work is suitable to our individual tastes and the
surroundings are pleasant.
These are some of the most important things in a good life-style.
We say that a bad life-style will tend to produce ill health - while a
good life-style will tend to produce good health.

Health and Healing

Now, what should we do if we are already sick?
Can Natural healing help us to get our health back?
We say that it can and that is why many people who have tried
everything else are now turning to Natural Healing.

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Those people who have tried everything else offered by the
medical system realise that they have nothing to lose by trying the
natural way to health.
The natural way of life is the one that every animal lives in its
natural state.
Animals obey natural law.
Man has also a natural way of life but it is unfortunately true that he
has largely chosen to depart from that way of life, and is now living
in a life-style that is not in his best interests.
Man is slowly ruining his health, building disease and shortening
his life by his unnatural way of life.
We say that by adopting a more natural way of life, man would
become healthier and, barring accidents would stay healthy to a
good old age.
In health, the body has certain needs - which we have already
discussed. In sickness, the body needs these same things. What is
good for a healthy body is also good for a sick body. But, that is
not quite enough. The sick body needs more than this.
In Natural Healing there are certain rules to be followed.
We say that there is a cause for every illness.
We say that the cause must first be removed before we can start to
get well.
No matter what the cause is, it should be removed.
If we are doing something wrong we must stop doing the wrong
thing.
We cannot get well while we are doing the things which caused our
sickness.
Although this sounds so sensible, many people seem to disregard
these simple facts.
A sick person CANNOT GET WELL AGAIN while he continues to
do the things, which caused him to become sick.
1. So, the first rule to learn in Natural Healing is to remove the
cause of our illness.
2. The second rule in Natural Healing is to provide the body
with everything it needs, like shelter, warmth, comfort and all
of the other things in a natural life-style.

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 3. The third rule in Natural Healing is to provide the sick body
with rest. There are three kinds of rest, which when
combined we call Fasting. We need:
- Physical rest - We secure physical rest by lying on a
comfortable bed, and not using the muscles more than
necessary.
- Mental rest - Mental rest is rest of the mind. We should keep
our mind free of worry, fear and tension.
- And another kind called physiological rest. - We simply take
no food except water, sunlight and air. All solid food is
avoided during a Fast. When we go without food the body is
able to rest its digestive organs, and these usually hard-
working organs get a much-needed rest.
These are the three simple rules, which every animal on earth
obeys when it is ill.
This applies only to animals living in their natural state.
Domesticated animals are often forced to accept medical
treatments against their will.
These three simple rules form the foundation of Natural Healing.
• There are no remedies or medicines in Natural Healing.
• Nature has not provided any remedies for animals, birds or
fish, and nature has also not provided any remedies for
human beings.
The natural way to restore lost health is what all animals use. This
method is sufficient for animals and it is sufficient for man as well.
In fact, it has often been found that the natural method of healing
will enable a seriously ill person to get well again, even when
medical methods have been tried unsuccessfully.
The tragedy is that often, natural methods are tried only as a
last resort, when much valuable time has been lost, and the
disease has progressed too far.

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The Natural Health Movement
I have now briefly explained what Natural Health is.
You know roughly what Natural Living means, and you know what
Natural Healing means.
It may interest readers to learn something about the more
important things in a natural life-style.
If my reader believes that it is natural to be healthy and that there
must be a natural way of life for human beings, just as there is for
animals, then the next step is to learn what we should do to
change a wrong life-style into a correct and natural life-style.
Most people get their first introduction to the natural way of life
through taking an interest in the food they eat.
During the past 50 years there has been a great upsurge of
interest in food.
• People are becoming more and more aware of the
importance of good food.
• They are becoming diet conscious.
It is becoming apparent that there are certain foods, which are not
only unsuitable - but also positively harmful.
The natural health movement has led the campaign to educate
people about their food needs.
• The fact is that many of the foods man is trying to live on are
really not foods at all. Their food content is very low. These
foods are eaten for their taste alone, without any regard for
their harmful nature. These foods should properly be called
non-foods. Anyone who values their health should not eat
them at all.
• Then, there are foods, which were quite wholesome in their
original state, but which have been changed into something
unwholesome by cooking, freezing and irradiating them.
These foods have been preserved, coloured, flavoured and
adulterated by the use of chemicals or harmful processes.
These foods also should not be eaten by anyone who wishes
to have good health.
Note: as of 1987 – ‘There were over 5,000 chemicals allowed into
our foods by the FDA’

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Today – that number has doubled to over 10,000 chemicals
allowed into our foods by the FDA
• Lastly, there are the foods, which are not the proper food of
man at all. Man has eaten the carcases of animals, birds and
fish that are properly the natural food of other animals. They
are not his natural food. They are substitutes for his natural
food, and man would be much healthier if he did not eat
them.
Non-Foods
Let us think about some of the non-foods - the things that have
absolutely no food value at all.
Man eats such chemical concoctions as tea, coffee, cocoa,
alcoholic drinks, soft drinks, salt, pepper, vinegar, sauces, curry,
and mustard.
We would be much better off if we discarded these non-foods
entirely. They have no food value and are potentially harmful.
There are also many foods, which have been so highly refined that
anything of value, which may have originally been in them, has
been taken out.
The grains like wheat, corn and rice have been particularly affected
by excessive refinement.
When in their natural state these foods are quite good – but when
refined - become when refined they become not only poor foods -
but also harmful ones.
Sugar is another food, which, in its natural state, is a reasonably
good food. When refined into white sugar it becomes one of the
most harmful commodities eaten by man. It is not only bad for
general health, but is also particularly harmful for the teeth. It is a
main cause of tooth decay.
Anyone who has any regard for their health should never eat
refined (white) flour or refined (white) sugar.
Now, let us think about the foods, which should be good foods, but
have often been ruined by processing.
Fruits and vegetables are the very highest class of food for man.
Those who wish to have radiant health should make raw fruit and
raw vegetables a large percentage of their daily intake of food.
Eaten raw, these foods are quite wholesome but when frozen,
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generally known that many good foods like fruit and vegetables are
destroyed during processing. Manufacturers often subject these
foods to very high or very low temperatures. All of these practices
reduce the food value of what were once wholesome foods. The
fruit and vegetables, which were good foods in their fresh raw
state, have been reduced to lifeless foods unfit for human
consumption.
The diet of the average person consists of lifeless products in
bottles, cans and packets. Is it any wonder that the standard of
health fitness is falling rapidly?
Perhaps the first and most important step the reader can take
towards the adoption of a more natural way of life is to discard all
harmful foods and to replace them with a living diet of foods in a
state as near natural as possible. This means a largely raw diet.
Do you realise that man is the only animal on earth who cooks his
food?
The beginner should try to eat as much raw fruit and vegetables as
possible. Cooked food should be reduced to the absolute
minimum.
In a booklet this size and scope it would not be possible to cover
the whole field of natural foods. Fortunately, there are books
available and you are urged to make enquiries where you bought
this booklet. You will be shown books, which fully cover this
important subject.
Let us now give some thought to some of the other factors in our
life style which make for good health. Correct food is very
important because we are made of the food we eat, but there are
other factors, which merit your attention too.
EXERCISE
Exercise is an important ingredient in a natural life-style. Exercise
has been sadly neglected due to the growth in popularity of the
motor car. What was once a blessing has now become a curse.
Many people imagine that they are getting enough when they are
not. The sum total of their exercise is to reach across the dinner
table for the sauce-bottle or to switch on the television set. Others
do get more exercise. They even walk to the garage to get into
their car to drive to work! While man worships motor cars there is
not much hope for a higher level of fitness.

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REST
Rest is another important factor in a natural life-style. Late nights
and lack of rest must take their toll eventually. Restful sleep is a
prime need for good health.
Noise and vibration are slowly but surely on the increase. Music
has largely been replaced by the tremendous thunder of
loudspeakers pumping out what can only be called noise. As the
nervous systems of listeners slowly deteriorate, amplifiers are
turned up even higher to satisfy those people who are gradually
becoming more and more deaf and whose nervous systems are
being destroyed by the substitute for music, which is so common
today.
MENTAL POISE
One factor in a good life-style is Mental Poise. In order to be able
to enjoy, and take advantage of the benefits of healthy living, one
should be mentally poised. What is mental poise? It is a condition
of balance, stability and self-control. I promised not to use any long
words in this booklet but here is one word that I can't resist using in
a case like this. It is Equanimity. It is a beautiful word that fully
expresses the condition of steadiness, composure and calmness
under the most trying circumstances. That is equanimity. That is
mental poise! Mental poise may be cultivated by adopting a
positive, optimistic and constructive attitude of mind in our daily
life. Negative thoughts, those based on pessimism, despair, fear
and destructiveness cause nervous tension. Positive thoughts
based on optimism, courage and constructiveness promote
relaxation. Tension causes poor circulation of blood and nerve
force. Relaxation favours good circulation.
Now looking back over what I have said, it becomes clear that
there are two distinctly different life-styles open to us. There is the
orthodox lifestyle based on the principle that you can do almost
what you like as long as you take certain medical precautions. In
the orthodox life-style the motto is “A little of what you fancy will do
you good.” "Tobacco smoking won’t hurt you unless you smoke too
much.” “Alcohol is a socially-acceptable habit which won’t hurt you
unless you drink to excess.” Those who advocate this life-style say
that we should have immunising injections and vaccinations
against Polio, Diphtheria, German measles, Smallpox, Cholera,
Yellow Fever and Influenza. If you show any signs of illness you
should consult a medical doctor who will prescribe the appropriate
remedy. If an organ is unhealthy a surgeon should remove it. This

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is the orthodox approach to health. We say that this approach to
health is wrong.
The natural way of life embraces a life-style almost exactly the
opposite to the orthodox life-style. We say those harmful habits
such as tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking and drug taking should
be abolished entirely. They are unnecessary and hazardous. We
say that man should eat those foods and drinks which are best
suited to him. We say that those who also get ample sunshine,
fresh air, vigorous exercise and regular rest and who maintain an
optimistic, positive and constructive attitude of mind will be
providing the normal natural requirements of a human being.
If man can do these things he can enjoy the highest level of health
of which he is capable and barring accidents should attain a
healthy happy old age free from sickness and worry.
INTELLIGENCE.WILLPOWER.DISCIPLINE
But, even with all of these things we need something else. There is
a need for Intelligence and Willpower.
Intelligence is needed to see through to the truth of our claim that
health is attainable and that it is natural for human beings to be
healthy and that it is possible to restore lost health (if taken in time)
if the causes of ill-health are removed and if rational nursing
methods are used.
Willpower is necessary to enable us to put into practice the truths
which our intelligence has discovered.
Self-discipline is necessary to enable us to apply the strength of
will needed to reject the habits of centuries and to replace them
with the health promoting habits and lifestyle that we have been
discussing.
There IS a life-style, which promises nothing but the maintenance
of the present state of sub-standard health, high incidence of
disease and premature death. This life-style can only bring in its
wake ill-health and misery.
There IS ALSO another life-style based on the undeniable truths of
nature. It is a natural way of life which although it demands
Intelligence and Willpower also promises a higher standard of
health, longer life free from worry of disease and a greater
measure of happiness.

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ALTERNATIVE HEALTH
Now let me impress a few facts on your mind. There are some very
wide misconceptions abroad today about Natural Health. It looks
like quackery to some people. One would think, to read some
newspaper articles, that almost anything and everything, which is
not currently accepted by the medical profession, is “natural.” This
is not so.
It should be clearly understood that the quackery that is
masquerading as Natural Health is nothing of the kind.
There is nothing natural about Acupuncture. Pushing needles into
the skin of a sick person will do nothing to correct a faulty life-style.
Taking herbal remedies is another form of superstition which is
masquerading as a “natural” form of treatment. It is nothing of the
kind. Herbalism has nothing in common with Natural Healing. It is
simply a “wolf in sheep's clothing.” It is simply medicine under
another name.
All the mineral and vitamin supplements so popular today are
simply pathetic efforts to offset the wrong living habits, which the
pill-takers are too weak to give up. To take pills under the guise of
a natural treatment is simply to admit that the taker is too weak to
do what he knows to be right to remove the cause of his sickness.
The various occult treatments such as Radionics, Pyramids and
Orgone accumulators are simply toys which appeal to those who
are too weak to face up to the hard fact of life that “Health cannot
be bought, it must be BUILT.”
I am telling you these things to warn you that the exploiters of the
Natural Health movement are ready to pounce upon the unwary
and unless warning is given in time, much hard-earned money can
be wasted on treatments which are nothing more than expensive
and useless entertainments.
TOXAEMIA
Now, if you will pardon me, I will become just a little more
technical. What actually CAUSES ill health? Do germs or viruses
play an important part in ill health? Or, does bad luck play a part?
Do diseases just come without warning, with no apparent reason?
Let me say briefly that these theories are quite wrong. Disease,
which is not caused by an accident, or obvious poisoning, is
caused by TOXAEMIA. There, I've done it again and I promised
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I must explain it. Really it is not as fearsome as it looks. Toxaemia
simply means poisoned blood. If your blood contains materials
which it should not contain, it is poisoned - You have Toxaemia.
Now, how does the blood become poisoned? - Through a faulty
life-style (barring accidents, of course).
When we eat the wrong foods, when we overeat, when we eat too
many meals, when we take poisons like tobacco smoke, alcohol or
drugs into our stomach, there is a residue of harmful or poisonous
material. This material enters the bloodstream and causes the
blood to become polluted. This polluted condition, called
Toxaemia, is the real cause of disease.
ENERVATION
Wrong living habits contribute to this state also by slowing up or
even by completely blocking the regular elimination of wastes from
the body. Wrong living habits do this by causing enervation. There,
I have done it again! Enervation is simply a lowering of the amount
of nerve force. When nerve force is lower than normal, the body is
unable to properly use the food we eat, and it is unable to properly
remove the waste products, which are produced everyday in the
human body. Now you know what actually causes disease. It is a
lowering of the composition of the blood.
I hope that by now my readers will have a fairly clear idea of what
causes disease. It is simply that man is trying to live under a
perverted lifestyle, which is not conducive to health.
What are the actual means used to restore health under the
system called Natural Healing? The practice of Natural Healing is
called Naturopathy. Those who practice the art of Nature Healing
are called Naturopaths.
The methods used are simple, direct and effective. Here briefly are
some of the more important methods:
Fasting, or the withholding of food is one of the most important
methods.
Dietetics is the provision of the daily intake of correct food.
When water is employed scientifically it is called Hydrotherapy.
When sunlight is used in measured doses it is called Heliotherapy.
Exercise is used extensively and special exercises have been
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Relaxation techniques are taught to help the patient to relax and
this creates favourable conditions for good circulation.
Manipulation (such as Osteopathy and Chiropractic) is used when
necessary to help in the normalisation of the bony structure of the
body.
When these essential methods are used together in a scientific
way the resultant treatment is called Naturopathy. Whatever is
done by the naturopath, whether it is by way of advice or
treatment, must be directed, first, last and always towards the
normalisation of the body. The naturopath believes that when
conditions in the human body are normal, healing takes place
automatically.
We have now come to the end of this little chat on Natural Health.
It is simply an introduction to this whole new and natural way of
life. There is so much to learn and I have just lifted the curtain to
give you a little peek inside. The rules are few and simple. If you
would like to know more about Natural Health you might like to
attend a meeting of a Natural Health Society. They are spread over
most of Australia. If it is not possible to listen to speakers at a
Natural Health Society, you might like to buy a book or a
magazine. A list of recommended books will be given below. You
can further your knowledge of Natural Health by reading any of
those recommended. They are all worthy of your attention.

The Germ Theory - A Fallacy

Introduction
It appears that there is a pressing need for a small booklet setting
out the reasons why we in the Natural Health movement reject the
theory that germs and viruses are the primary cause of disease. In
the past, several books and many small pamphlets have been
published but they now seem to be largely unprocurable.
To those in the know it is simply accepted that the germ theory is a
fallacy and no real effort has been made to publicise the many
reasons for rejecting this fallacy.
There have been a few exceptions. In recent years Doctor Glen
Dettman of Melbourne has written an excellent monograph entitled
MICROZYMAS PLEASE NOT BACTERIA, exposing the fallacy of
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was BECHAMP OR PASTEUR, by Ethel Douglas Hume, published
many years ago by the C. W. Daniel Co. of London. In her
admirable book M/s Hume goes into great detail and traces the
history of the development of the germ theory as promoted by the
well-known Louis Pasteur and compares it with the Microzyma
theory as taught by the lesser known Professor Antoine Bechamp.
Pasteur was a plagiarist and showman who published some of the
work of Bechamp as his own in an inaccurate, distorted and
truncated form to give the scientific world an incorrect impression
of Bechamp's discoveries
The Microzyma theory is a scientific, logical and believable
extension and development of the incomplete germ theory.
On his deathbed Louis Pasteur recanted and admitted that he had
been wrong all along. He admitted that the determining factor in
disease causation was not the bacteria present but the soil in
which it was found. Pasteur said, "Bernard was right: the microbe
is nothing, the terrain is everything"
A word of explanation is necessary to clarify the statement of
Pasteur, which might otherwise be unintelligible. The "Bernard"
referred to was Claude Bernard, the eminent physiologist who
claimed, in opposition to Pasteur, that the microbe or germ was not
the prime factor in the cause of disease, but that the "terrain” was
all-important. By "terrain" was meant the environment or soil or
scene of activity in which the germ found itself. So, on his
deathbed Louis Pasteur admitted that all along he had been
mistaken. The germ, which was present at the site of most
diseases, did not cause the disease. He admitted belatedly that
the soil in which the germ was enabled to survive and flourish was
the all-important factor.
Unfortunately, this recantation was too late and was given no
publicity, and it remains unknown to the average person. The germ
theory, which Louis Pasteur had propagated so assiduously, had
become an integral part of the theory and practice of medicine.
And, that is the position today.
It is necessary for those who know better to periodically bring
under the notice of interested parties the truth about the germ
theory. This little booklet is an attempt to set out clearly in non-
technical language the reasons why intelligent people should reject
outright the monstrous fallacy called the germ theory.

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Two Theories
The Naturopathic profession has adopted as its cornerstone the
philosophy of Toxaemia as the prime cause of disease. Toxaemia,
as has been explained in many books, is the presence of
unwanted, harmful or foreign material in the bloodstream and
tissues of the body. The word Toxaemia literally means, "Poisoned
blood".
The medical profession, on the other hand, is wedded to the germ
theory. It holds to the belief that the presence of germs, bacteria,
microbes or viruses, which tend to invade the body, is the direct
cause of most diseases. When germs invade the body this is
called an "infection". So, logically, medical treatment is largely
devoted to the administration of drugs, which are designed to kill
the tiny offending organisms. The drugs are poisonous chemicals
called Antibiotics, which have the ability to destroy living organisms
like germs, microbes, bacteria and viruses.
The organisms we are discussing are incredibly small and these
infinitesimal beings are credited with the almost miraculous power
of being able to invade the human body, to live there, to multiply
and eventually, to kill a human being which is a million times larger
than the invader - Altogether a frightening prospect if true.
Fortunately for us this claim is NOT true.
Those practitioners, (such as Naturopaths) who practice Natural
Healing, make no effort to kill these organisms. They seek instead
to remove the CAUSE of the disease, and since these organisms
are not recognised as causes of disease, no effort is made to
remove or exterminate them. Yet, those patients suffering from so-
called infectious diseases, which are thought to be caused by
invading germs, all recover speedily when the practitioner ignores
the germ and proceeds to remove the true cause of the disease.
This fact is concrete proof that the disease was not only NOT
caused primarily by a germ, but that killing of germs is
unnecessary.
The Naturopath does not deny that these microscopic organisms
exist. He does not deny that, in some cases, these organisms can
be found in the bodies of sick people. What he does deny is that
they are the primary cause of disease.
An unhealthy state of the body tissues is the primary cause of
disease. The presence of germs is secondary and is dependent
upon an unhealthy state of the tissues. We contend that germs
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diseased or poisoned organism and often thrive on the material or
soil which is favourable to them. Germs, bacteria, microbes and
viruses do not and cannot invade a healthy body.
Why?
In order to understand why germs sometimes invade the human
body and their true role in human health it is necessary to know a
few facts about Biology. Biology is the science of living things.
Biologists study all living organisms, how they are constructed,
what they are made of, how they are made, how they work and
their most favourable environment and living conditions. Biology
teaches us that every living organism in the Universe has a set of
essential requirements. These are called Biological Requirements
because they are essential for the life of living things.
These biological requirements are different for different organisms.
Obviously, the biological needs of a fish are very different from the
biological needs of a reptile. And, the biological needs of an
elephant are quite different from the biological needs of a tree or
shrub.
Every living organism has its own peculiar set of biological require-
ments according to its peculiar structure, composition and function.
The tiny lowly organisms, which we generally call genus, are no
different from all other living organisms in the Universe. They have
certain essential biological requirements if they are to live and
thrive.
Germs, like all other organisms, need a congenial environment
where the amount of light is just right. The germ also needs food.
The food, which is suitable for a germ is not the kind of food, which
would be suitable for some other organisms, like human beings.
The kind of food, which would be ideally suited to a germ, would
most likely kill a human being. Conversely the kind of food best
suited to a human being would not suit a germ. Each organism has
its own specific needs and thrives best when these needs are met.
Therefore it is not surprising to find germs in an unhealthy human
body. The materials, which are present when the human body is
unhealthy, happen to be the very materials, which the germ finds
to be suitable for it to use as food.

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The Role of the Germ
The true role of the germ is that of a scavenger. Germs, like all
other living organisms, are constantly on the lookout for suitable
food in a suitable environment.
In an unhealthy human body the germ finds all of the things it likes
and needs. The human body provides food, absence of light, an
ideal temperature and the presence of moisture in just the right
proportion. Is it any wonder that germs, which are borne on air,
dust, hands and food find easy access to an unhealthy organism.
Germs are present all over the world in varying numbers according
to the food available and according to the suitability or otherwise of
the environment. Our atmosphere, the earth, our food, our clothing,
our homes, shops and factories are all possible habitats for germs.
Germs do exist but they do not necessarily exist as a threat to
humanity. In fact, I would like to suggest that germs are NOT our
enemies or even potential enemies, but that they are in reality
OUR FRIENDS.

Environment
Before I deal with this claim that germs are our friends and not our
enemies, I would like to discuss something else which is
appropriate at this stage. I made several statements which inferred
that germs only invaded those organisms which provided the right
food and a suitable environment. Here is the concrete proof for
those statements.
Anyone can carry out this simple test at home to prove or disprove
what I say.
Take two clean garbage cans. Stand them side by side a little
distance apart. In the first garbage can you place a few scraps of
decaying food. The second garbage can is left empty. Put the lids
on both cans. Wait for a few days. Lift the lid off the first can. You
will find that it will be infested by all kinds of vermin, flies, worms
and maggots. Lift the lid off the second garbage can and you will
find it to be sweet and clean. Now, replace the lids and wait for
several days more. When you inspect the cans this time you may
be surprised to find that they are both in an almost identical
condition. The first can will be empty, except possibly for a slight
stain in the bottom where the decaying food scraps once laid. The
second can, will of course be empty. You will find no flies in can

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number one. There will be no vermin, worms or maggots. Those
people who have studied biology will know what has happened.
The invaders of the first garbage can were nature's scavengers.
The flies laid eggs, which became larvae. The larvae consumed all
of the decaying food and then they developed into flies and flew
away through the gap between the can and the lid.
The scavengers are all part of nature's plan to keep the Universe
liveable. Imagine what our cities and towns, homes, shops and
factories would be like if the garbage collector failed to make his
regular visits. Our environment would soon be congested with
noisome garbage in all stages of decomposition and life would be
intolerable.
The same principle, which applies in nature, applies equally within
the human body. These tiny organisms which we call germs are
our cosmic garbage collectors. But instead of simply taking the
garbage and tipping it into a hole in the ground, our friends the
germs, do an even better job. They actually eat the garbage and
turn it into useful manure.
Nobody would be foolish enough to kill the council garbage man,
so why should we wish to kill our cosmic garbage man, the germ?

Germs Our Friends

Now, let me deal with my claim that germs are not our enemies,
but our potential FRIENDS. Imagine a world without germs. We
would not have butter, cheese or bread. We would not have
alcohol in its many useful forms. We could not grow plants, shrubs,
grass or trees. It is precisely because of our friendly bacteria in our
soil that plants are able to use the nutrients, which provide protein,
which is so essential for plant life. As all food comes from the soil,
we would eventually die of starvation. And as I said before, how
would we live if our garbage were not converted into manure by
our friendly bacteria? The stench and filth would soon make life
impossible. And what about our own bodies? Some life processes,
which are essential to our survival, are dependent upon certain
bacteria in the mouth and intestines. Without these germs we
would sicken and die.
It is not a matter of whether we wish to encourage and assist these
bacteria or not. It is a stark fact that if we persist in our efforts to
make a completely "clean" and sterile world we will soon find that
the price we pay will be sickness and premature death. We can’t

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do without germs so we might as well accept this fact intelligently
and learn to live with them to the best of our ability. Germs do exist
and man cannot live for long in a completely germ-free
environment.

The Germ Theory

Current medical teaching is that specific germs cause specific
diseases. This means that one particular kind of germ causes a
particular kind of disease. This is nonsense because in many
cases where one would expect to find a certain germ, no germ can
be found. Sometimes when no germ can be found a virus is said to
be causing the disease. But, when neither germ nor virus can be
found, the sufferer is then said to be a "carrier" of the disease who
is immune to that particular disease. This lame excuse is meekly
accepted by otherwise intelligent people who have never seriously
thought about the subject. This person who has the disease, yet
has no germs in his organisms is said to produce “antibodies"
which have killed the germs - sheer fantasy.

Florence Nightingale Speaks

But, the germ theory is breaking down continually. When
epidemics occur it is often impossible to find the causative germ.
The patients either recover or die and when the excitement is all
over interest soon dies down and the incident is forgotten. I wonder
if my reader is incredulously doubting what I have said up to now.
Could it be that the foregoing is simply the babblings of an idiot? If
so, then I hope to be excused while I call some expert witnesses.
Nobody would have the temerity to doubt the integrity, nursing skill
and knowledge of Florence Nightingale, so I would like to quote
briefly what she had to say about infectious diseases. Here is what
Florence Nightingale wrote in her book NOTES ON NURSING
which she published in 1859. “We must not forget what, in ordinary
language, is called ‘infection’ - a thing of which people are
generally so afraid that they frequently follow the very practice in
regard to it which they ought to avoid. Nothing used to be
considered so infectious or contagious as smallpox; and people,
not very long ago, used to cover up patients with heavy
bedclothes, while they kept up large fires, and shut the windows.
Smallpox of course, under this management, was very ‘infectious’.
People are somewhat wiser now in their management of this
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the windows open; and we hear much less of the 'infection' of
Smallpox than we used to do. But do people in our day’s act with
more wisdom on the subject of 'infection' in fevers-scarlet fever,
measles, etc. than their forefathers did with Smallpox? Does not
the popular idea of 'infection' involve that people should take
greater care of themselves than of the patient? That, for instance,
it is safer not to be too much with the patient, not to attend too
much to his wants? True nursing knows nothing of infection,
except to prevent it
Cleanliness and fresh air from open windows, with unremitting
attention to the patient, are the only defence a true nurse either
asks or needs, Wise and humane management of the patient is
the best safeguard against infection. Is it not living in a continual
mistake to look upon diseases, as we do now, as separate things,
which must exist, like cats and dogs? Instead of looking upon them
as conditions, like a dirty and a clean condition, and just as much
under our own control; or rather as the reactions of a kindly nature,
against the conditions in which we have placed ourselves, I was
brought up, both by scientific men, and ignorant women, distinctly
to believe that Smallpox, for instance, was a thing of which there
was once a first specimen in the world, which went on propagating
itself, in a perpetual chain of descent, just as much as that there
was a first dog (or a first pair of dogs), and that Small-pox would
not begin itself any more than a new dog would begin with out
there having been a parent dog. Since I have seen with my eyes
and smelt with my nose Smallpox growing up in first specimens
either in close rooms or in overcrowded wards where it could not
by any possibility have been 'caught', but must have begun. Nay,
more, I have seen diseases begin, grow up, and pass into another.
Now, Dogs do not pass into Cats, I have seen fever grow up; and
with a little more, typhoid fever; and with a little more, typhus; and
all in the same ward or hut.
Would it not be far better, truer and more practical if we looked
upon diseases in this light?
'THE WITCHCRAFT FETISH AND THE GERM FETISH ARE
PRODUCTS OF THE SAME MENTAL CONDITION'.”
Now, what do you think of that? Florence Nightingale realised as
far back as 1859 that the current superstitious belief in the germ
theory was based on a total fallacy.

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Professor Bechamp Speaks
Immunisation is the latest craze. People are urged to submit to
injections of poisonous material in the pathetic belief that somehow
this practice will confer a benefit on the person whose body is
assaulted by this noxious substance called an anti-toxin or
immunological agent
It is claimed that when a person is once attacked by the mysterious
germs or viruses, they do not get the disease again. So, disease
germs or viruses are deliberately injected directly into the
bloodstream of a perfectly healthy person. Of course, these
procedures are doomed to failure. Diseases are not caused by
germ invasion. The germ invasion is a direct result of a suitable
environment for their development. Germs are no different from
any other organisms. They thrive where their living conditions are
most favourable. Just as human beings thrive where the food is
best, the temperature favourable, humidity is just right and so on,
so do germs thrive. Germs thrive in darkness, humidity and warmth
and where there is a medium, which carries organic matter in the
process of disintegration. Highly toxic matter provides the ideal diet
for these tiny organisms. Wherever a body is heavily encumbered
with toxic waste matter, germs find their foothold.
Germs, like human beings and other animals, cannot live unless
they have a suitable diet provided for them. An unhealthy body
provides the breeding-ground for germs. They multiply in billions
and their activity is in direct proportion to the amount of food they
are able to find. The excreta from these germs is highly toxic, and
this adds to the general toxic condition of the body. The orthodox
method of treatment is to find the specific germ and then attempt to
kill it by means of drugs or other violent measures.
The idea that a specific germ disease would give a person
protection against another germ disease was the brainchild of
Louis Pasteur. Pasteur was inspired by the example of Edward
Jenner the Englishman, who believed that a person who had
suffered from cowpox could not develop Smallpox. Pasteur was a
chemist who had little knowledge of biology and even less
knowledge of the true nature of health and disease. When Jenner
became famous through his new treatment by injection of
vaccines, Pasteur looked upon Jenner as a great scientist and
decided to follow his lead.
Antoine Bechamp had been doing a great deal of research work
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quietly set about tracing the origins of germs. Pasteur used
Bechamp's original material and discovery for his own ends.
Instead of waiting until Bechamp's researches were completed, he
came out with the announcement that he had made a great
discovery. Pasteur distorted Bechamp's teachings, and by astute
public relations works, managed to gain the ascendancy. Bechamp
was a scientist and not a showman. In a short time Pasteur was
hailed far and wide as a genius. Pasteur suggested that he could
protect human beings from disease by inoculating everybody with
the specific germs in a mild form and thus everybody inoculated
would get the disease in a mild form and would never be subject to
the disease in a virulent form
Pasteur acted on the assumption that everybody is liable to
contract a certain disease. He disregarded the fact that many
people do not get this specific disease even if they literally swim in
a bath full of these germs.
The idea that germs cause disease is contrary to the facts. One
good reason for doubting this hypothesis is that in most cases
there is disease present when there is no germ to be found. This is
because the germs have not had time to invade the body and then
multiply. In other cases, one type of germ is found and another
disease altogether is present.
Since we know that germs do exist and since we claim that the
germ does not primarily cause disease, we must seek for the true
explanation of this apparent mystery. The explanation can be
found in the theory of the Microzyma. Antoine Bechamp continued
his researches and found that the germ was not the basic unit.
Going further, he discovered tinier, simpler organisms, which he
called the Microzyma. The presence of this organism explains the
anomaly in the germ theory. Bechamp found that the Microzyma is
benign. It plays a vital role in the human body. Germs are derived
from the Microzyma. When the waste matter on which germs thrive
is all consumed, the germs return to their former state as
Microzyma. The Microzyma changes into a germ and then the
germ changes back into the Microzyma when it is necessary. This
explains the disappearance of germs when the body is able to
overcome its toxic condition. It explains where germs come from
and where they go to.
It is now clear that the Microzyma is a link between the simplest
form of life in the human body and the complex mechanism of
germs. The Microzyma theory also explains why it is possible to

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disregard germs when treating disease by the methods of Natural
healing.
Naturopaths entirely disregard germs in their treatment of disease.
All of their efforts are directed towards the detoxification or
cleansing of the organism. When the organism is thoroughly
cleansed of it's accumulations of poisonous waste matter, the
germs mysteriously disappear without leaving a trace. Where do
they go? It is obvious that they revert to the Microzyma stage
where they are quite harmless. Our theory is that when a human
body becomes saturated with poisonous material, the Microzyma
automatically develop into germs. These germs immediately set
about the work of devouring this harmless material. As long as we
do not continue producing toxic matter it will not be long before the
germs, acting as scavengers, will rid the body of the offending
matter.
The germs will revert to their original state as Microzyma and the
disease will subside. All germ diseases are thus seen to be self-
limiting if treated correctly. If we listen to the voice of our organism,
and if we treat the condition by natural means, there will be no
danger of germs over-running the body and posing a threat to its
welfare.
And, that brings me to a consideration of the work of a man whose
name I have mentioned several times. It appears that Florence
Nightingale forecast in 1859 what Professor Antoine Bechamp
discovered about the same time and which he published in 1883.
In case you might tend to brush this gentleman aside as being of
no account I would like to list a few of his qualifications. Professor
Antoine Bechamp was a Frenchman who was born in 1828. He
was a Master of Pharmacy, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Medicine,
Professor of Medical Chemistry and Pharmacy, Fellow and
Professor of Physics and Toxicology, Professor of Chemistry,
Professor of Biological Chemistry. He had many other honours and
titles but those 1 have quoted are sufficient to indicate that he was
a man of learning and academic authority.
It is not easy to translate into simple terms the exact teaching on
germs as laid down by Professor Bechamp. However, I will try to
interpret as simply as I can what Bechamp thought about disease,
germs and the Microzyma.
Bechamp said that diseases do NOT arise because of anything
outside the human body. He said that disease is born of our
tissues and inside our tissues. In all healthy organisms and all

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through nature the Microzymas (or tiny organisms) are ever
present and harmless. In the diseased body, (that is, one which is
toxaemic) the Microzymas can change into bacteria or germs.
Germs cannot exist in the air, the earth, water or food or in a
healthy body because germs can only arise in putrid material, as is
found in an unhealthy body. The micro organisms known as
disease germs are in reality Microzymas which have evolved into
germs inside sick bodies.

The Septic Tank

It is a curious fact that Bacteriologist’s have known about the
benign function of bacteria for many years, but have failed to apply
the correct line of reasoning to the action of germs inside the
human body.
For many years Bacteriologist’s and plumbers have known that in
order to convert dead organic material into a harmless substance
like pure water, we need only to employ a Septic Tank using the
same germs which are thought to be the cause of disease. All over
the world septic tanks are employed to convert human excreta into
harmless saline constituents and pure water. The name septic tank
means a tank which is infested with bacteria. A septic tank is one
where material rots and becomes pure drinkable water.

Stubbornness
Many years ago Winifred Sealby wrote in an article which
appeared in the Manly Daily newspaper – “the germ theory of
disease, that most terrible of all medical failures, is slowly tottering
to its inglorious end - a sorry monument to the cruelty, stupidity
and avarice of our modern civilisation.”
The key word here is 'slowly'. It is regrettable that in 1980 when we
can look back on 100 years of tremendous scientific achievement;
the telephone, the electric light, radio, television, the motor car, the
aeroplane and space travel to the moon, man still stubbornly clings
to superstitious notions like the germ theory. Orthodoxy dies hard
in some quarters. But not all medical people are reactionary and
stubborn. There have been a few advanced thinkers who have
been able to shed their 'blinkers' and have investigated the
teachings of Naturopathy, and belatedly, the teachings of
Professor Bechamp. Those independent and courageous thinkers
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chemical ingredients, working on the unbalanced cellular activity of
the human body, which causes disease. It therefore follows that if
the breaking down and building up of body cells, which we call
Metabolism, is perfectly balanced, disease cannot occur.
If the Microzymas are fed on healthy materials they too will remain
healthy but if they are fed on unsuitable and harmful materials,
they change from harmless Microzymas into a new form of
organism. And this new form of organism is the germ, which acts
as a scavenger, to consume the harmful material which poses a
threat to the welfare of the body. A friend of mine once said
'Bacteria, like Bacteriologist’s must eat - How true. So we look, not
to the Bacteriologist, to help us to solve this problem. They have a
vested Interest in disease. We must look in the right place if we are
to discover the truth about germs.
We must look to the food on which the germs feed, rather than to
the germs themselves. Germs live on decaying, rotting material.
Germs cannot live on wholesome living food. It is not in their
nature, just as it is not in our nature, to live on decaying or rotting
material. Our organisms are entirely different from the organisms
of germs and our needs are consequently different. Before germs
can cause fermentation they must have a suitable medium in
which to work. And that suitable material is precisely the kind found
in an unhealthy human body. Nothing could be simpler to
understand Germs cannot decompose the living tissues of a
healthy human being. Such a proposition is impossible and
unthinkable.
It is a law of nature that the higher forms of life can attack and
destroy lower forms of life. Germs are very simple organisms and,
as far as we know, the lowest form of life. Germs are the smallest
and weakest forms of life that human beings encounter. It would be
unthinkable if germs were able to attack and destroy a human
being.
A Chihuahua dog would not attack an Alsatian dog. The Alsatian
dog could make one mouthful of the tiny Mexican dog. All through
nature it is the stronger, the larger and more powerful animals
which habitually attack and kill a smaller animal.
So it is with man and his environment. If man's environment is
suitable, if his diet and life-style are favourable, then there is
nothing in his tissues which could harbour and sustain the lowly
germ.

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Sir Robert McCarrison Speaks
Hundreds of books containing millions of words have been written
on bacteriology. (This is simply a long word meaning the study of
how germs are supposed to cause disease. It is a profession
based on an utter fallacy. But no matter how much has been
written it all boils down to the same pathetic fallacy. It is the belief
by so-called grown men and women in 20th century witchcraft and
fantasy).
In 1920 in a speech to the Royal Society in London, professor Sir
Robert McCarrison said: “Obsessed with the invisible microbe,
virus and protozoa as all-important constituents of disease
subservient to laboratory methods of diagnosis, hidebound by our
system of nomenclature (arrangement of names) we often forget
that the most fundamental of all rules for the physician, the right
kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of
health and the wrong kind of food is the most Important factor in
the promotion of disease.”
Much more could be said against the germ theory and much more
could be said In favour of the toxaemia theory. Those who would
like to go into greater detail about the germ theory and its rival, the
Microzyma theory, could not do better than read the book
BECHAMP OR PASTEUR? by Ethel Douglas Hume, published by
the C. W. Daniel Company, London. Those who would like to
investigate the Toxaemia theory of disease causation will find it
fully covered in my own booklet THE CAUSE OF DISEASE by K.S.
Jaffrey and also in TOXAEMIA EXPLAINED by Dr. J.H. Tilden.
In Conclusion
Finally, the lesson we have to learn is that the germs which inhabit
this universe are not necessarily harmful to man. Under normal
conditions germs of all kinds have their part to play in maintaining
the ecological balance of nature. There can be a harmonious inter-
relationship between all living organisms in our environment if we
will only adopt a favourable life-style. We should try to live in
harmony with nature so the germs, which are an integral part of
our environment, will be enabled to produce our food and other
useful commodities and so the germs inside our bodies can
perform their essential functions, and last but by no means least,
we should try to understand the germs in our environment which
act as useful scavengers keeping our habitat clean and
wholesome.

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When we learn to abandon our irrational fear of germs we will take
the first step towards living in harmony with nature.

K.S. Jaffrey
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