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NATURE'S EXPERIMENTS 143

to take them for granted as cases of ordinary parasitism.
It is evident, after what we have said, that instead of
maintaining that the affection has had as its origin and
cause the introduction into the organism of foreign germs
with their consequent action, one should affirm that one
only has to do with an alteration of the functions of micro-
zymas, an alteration indicated by the change that has taken
place in their form."
The great teacher, who had already so well demon-
strated his knowledge of real parasitic disease-conditions
by his discovery of the cause ofpebrine, was surely proving
himself to be the best equipped for the understanding of
those experiments that Nature undertakes when the
normal workings of the body are reduced to chaos, and
anarchy reigns in the organism. But the majority of man-
kind, ignorant of the cytological elements, have been de-
lighted with a crude theory of disease which they could
understand and have ignored the profound teaching of
Professor Antoine Bechamp. It is to what appears to have
been Pasteur's attempted plagiarism of these views that we
must now turn our attention.