Winnie

[Guest guest]

My book on Pasteur was about the theory of fermentation and the germ theory.

There was nothing about Pasteur and hospital sterilization. That sounds more

like

something that would be promoted by Florence Nightingale.

Here is what Pasteur said, " It is a terrifying thought that life is at the

mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies , it is a consoling hope that

Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies, since for example

at the very beginning of the study we find that simple exposure to air is

sufficient at times to destroy them. "

Then he gives case histories of people who have boils, and how he takes the pus

out, puts it under the microscope, sees the germs and CONCLUDES that the germs

caused the boils.

You would think that a bright boy like that would ask himself a couple of

questions.

Like how did people survive from the beginning if all those germs which he

admits were everywhere.

If the germ caused those boils and sickness, why did he and his fellow workers

not catch them.

He never explains the overall health of the person who has the boils, but we

know they couldn't have been healthy with all that poison coming out of them.

Why did he just assume that the germs were the enemies?

What he was proposing was that a person could be perfectly healthy one minute

and be attack by germs and get sick the next day. We now know that when a person

gets sick it is because the immune system is down, and the real cause is

whatever lowered the immune system, which could not be the germ as germs are

everywhere and everybody would be sick all the time.

Any way I will see if I have any more books about Pasteur. I think this Jed is

stroking you. Lets put him to the test.

Jim