On April 15, 1908, Antoine Bechamp, one of the greatest scientists who ever lived died, aged 91. You may well be asking “who cares?” or “why is this important?”, as well as “who is this guy?”
It is important because Antoine Bechamp was the foremost pioneer of science, medicine, nutrition and genetics of his generation, and his discoveries could have saved humanity immense misery and suffering.
He was one of France’s most prominent and active researchers and biologists; he had degrees in biology, chemistry, physics, pharmacy, and medicine, and practised, researched and taught in all those fields. He first worked in Strasbourg as a Professor of Physics and Toxicology at the Higher School of Pharmacy, later as Professor of Medical Chemistry at the University of Montpellier and, later still, as Professor of Biochemistry and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lille, all in France.
After his death, it took eight pages of the French Moniteur Scientifique (the equivalent publication to that of the National Academy of Sciences) just to list the titles of his professionally published studies. The Moniteur Scientifique said of Antoine Béchamp: “Those of his acquaintance who cared for him and were about him know that he never doubted that one day justice would be rendered him.”
For many years, Bechamp was forgotten by all but a few diehards and researchers on the fringes of science and medicine. It is only now, with the rise of the internet, that his work and theories are getting the exposure that they deserve. At the time of writing, googling “Antoine Bechamp” gets 10,200 hits — a long way from Louis Pasteur’s 2,310,00, but it is still much more exposure and discussion than his work has had for many years.
For more, see a Squidoo lens on Antoine Bechamp and pleomorphism.
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