Time: Fri Aug 22 10:36:09 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA02260; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 07:21:58 -0700 (MST) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA13766; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 07:19:33 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 07:18:07 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Blood Feud (fwd) <snip> > >Subject: Blood Feud > >Dear Wolf Eyes, > >Thank you so much for your offer of assitance and the delivery of >same. Following is a few documents for you, you may do as you wish >with them. > >There are a couple of things that have aged or changed in this doc, the >Supreme Court has already decided the issue for one. It is fine, it >gets the point accross. Is there a way to edit the documents from my >end? > >The other is I have been ordered to deliver my body for incarceration >September 12, 1997, my wife's birthday. Still fighting though and we >are Praying for a benefactor to help support our battle. > >Our prayer has come through you! Thank you once again. > >Sincere Regards, > >Charles Pixley > > >B L O O D F E U D >y Paul William Roberts > > Gaston Naessens claims to have discovered a new way of looking >at blood >that could revolutionize the treatment of cancer. Why does the Medical >establishment consider him so dangerous? > > In 1989, a French-born biologist named Gaston Naessens was >arrested in >Quebec and charged with four counts of illegal practice of medicine and >one count of contributing to the death of a patient. > > The patient, a woman with metastasized breast cancer in the >terminal >stages, had refused all conventional treatments and insisted instead on >taking a camphor-based medicinal that Naessens had developed. > > The medicinal, which he called 714X, was designed not to destroy >cancer >cells in the way of conventional treatments but to bolster the immune >system and help the body heal itself. > > Naessens, who had a tiny private lab on the banks of the Magog >River in >the Eastern Townships, had instructed a close friend of the woman's in >how to inject the substance into the lymphatic node in the groin. She >received injections for seven months before she died in July, 1984. > > The prosecution wished to prove that Naessens' patient might >have stood >a chance if she had pursued conventional treatment. The corollary was >proving that Naessens knew his alternative treatment to be >worthless--that he was a charlatan hoping to profit from the desperation > >of someone in the throes of terminal illness. > > The prosecution was not fooling around--the charge of >contributing to >the woman's death carried a potential life sentence. > > The trial, which made the front pages of Quebec newspapers for >three >weeks in November, 1989, opened with a parade of doctors and scientists >testifying to the scientific untenability of 714X and the spurious >nature of Naessens' theories of cancer and its treatment. > > In the media, a sketchy, negative image of the man began to >emerge; he >claimed to have invented a microscope that could reveal the mysteries of > >living blood. He claimed to have discovered, through his studies of >blood, something he called a somatid, which he said was a precursor of >DNA and the absolute ground zero of life. > > He claimed to have identified a sixteen-stage cycle through >which the >somatid passed, and claimed that he could link the various phases of >that cycle with the health (or ill health) of a patient. > > He'd drawn the ire of medical authorities in his homeland; he'd >been >forced out of France twenty-five years earlier. He'd set up in the >quiet backwater of Quebec, his critics said, hoping to evade medical >scrutiny. > > By the time the defense was ready to present its case to the >jury, the >mood was grim in the Naessens camp. But it soon changed. Witness after > >witness took the stand to describe the horrors of their battles with >cancer and the apparent cures they'd finally achieved after using >Naessens' treatment. > > Gerald Godin, politician, journalist, poet testified on the >biologist's >behalf, outline his struggle with a brain tumor that he believed 714X >had helped to check. The French ambassador to the Seychelles told a >similar story. > > In the courtroom the gratitude to Naessens was so apparent and >emotions >running so high that the prosecutor not to cross-examine defense >witnesses on "Human grounds." > > > Moreover, the testimonials to Naessens integrity were >overwhelming: >He'd never promised a cure, never told one of them to discontinue >conventional treatment, and never asked for payment. > > When Gilles Vigneault, chansonnier and bard, a Quebecois folk >hero, >arrived from Paris to show his support for Naessens, the effect was >electrifying. To the press during a court lunch break, Vigneault >described what was happening to Naessens as a "witch hunt" and went on >to sing the praises of alternative medicine. > > He concluded: "One must seek, on humanity's behalf, medical >progress >unblocked by pharmaceutical lobbyism that, together with that of arms >mongers, is one of the world's most powerful." > > The jury was not long in coming to a verdict: Acquittal on all >five >counts. The Journal de Montreal went to town, its front page headlined >NAESSENS ACQUITTED. > A sidebar, however, bore the headline "It's Twenty-Five Years >Now That >This Farce Has Continued," quoting Dr. Augustin Roy, the head of the >Quebec Medical Corporation, the professional self-regulating and >licensing body that had pushed for charges to be laid against Naessens. > > The Trial, Roy said, was "wholly incomplete"; the prosecutor >should >have "savagely cross-examined every one of the patients who had >testified on Naessens' behalf.... > > "All the patients who testified simply don't know the difference > >between feeling healthy and being healthy... All of them should stand >at attention or, more properly, get down on their knees to thank >orthodox medicine for having kept them alive." > > Roy apparently had not noticed that the majority of Naessens' >patients >were refugees from conventional medicine, which had either written them >off or offered a treatment that frequently seemed worse than the >disease. > > And Roy was not about to relent. Within weeks of the not-guilty > >verdict, eighty-two more counts of practicing medicine without a license > >were brought against Naessens, each carrying the threat of a $5,000 >fine. > > As was clear from this rhetoric, Augustin Roy wasn't fighting >any more >to protect innocent patients from an unscrupulous quack. He was >fighting to protect his profession from an alternative vision of >healing, an alternative model of disease processes, and a press that >kept on insisting that this heretic, Gaston Naessens, was the Galileo of > >modern medicine and the microscope. > > Naessens himself prefers a comparison with Antoine Bechamp. Not >so >well known as Galileo and not so persecuted for his "heresies," Bechamp, > >a professor of biochemistry and dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the >University of Lilles, France, in the last decades of the nineteenth >century, had been Louis Pasteur's major adversary. > > The controversy between Pasteur and Bechamp--now a forgotten >episode in >medical history--had been the scientific equivalent of front-page news >and concerned the very nature of disease itself. > > Bechamp believed that the cause of disease lay within the entire >system >of the body; Pasteur insisted that disease came from without, which >fitted with the formulation of his now famous and standard germ theory. >It seems likely that both men were right to a certain degree, but >Pasteur was a tireless self-promoter while Bechamp was diffident and >somewhat reclusive. > > Pasteur's model was also more appealing to physicians who wanted >a >definite disease target on which they could make war, rather than a >state of good health they had to delicately maintain. Thus: the Pasteur > >Institute, on the one hand, and on the other, a baffled shrug from most >doctors if Bechamp's name comes up. > > Under his microscope more than a century ago, Bechamp had >observed in >fermenting solutions tiny particles, which he called microzymas, that >appeared to have powerful catalytic effects--facilitating change while >remaining essentially unchanged themselves. > He went on to note the presence of these particles in the bodies >of >animals, coming to the conclusion not only that they were the most >fundamental form of all living matter but that they were essential to >any form of life, from cell division and basic bacteria up. > > What seemed most extraordinary to Bechamp was the observation >that the >microzymas could apparently actively participate in the destruction of >an organism without being destroyed themselves. > > Indeed, their indestructibility was such that he believed a >French >paleontologist had found evidence of them in 60 million year old >limestone from the early Cenozoic era, the period when mammals first >started to develop on earth. > > How Naessens became Bechamp's inheritor is a bit of a convoluted > >story. The youngest child of a banker, Naessens was born in 1924 in >Roubaix, near Lille in northern France. As a child he showed a >mechanical proclivity that both amazed and terrified his parents. From >manipulating Meccano sets at five the boy went on to build his own >motorcycle and then an airplane just big enough to carry him--which his >mother burned before it could take its maiden flight. > > The Second World War broke out as Naessens was beginning to >study >physics, chemistry, and biology at the University of Lille. When the >Nazis occupied the city both he and his professors ended up in exile >near Nice, where he continued his studies towards a degree. > > Naessens received a diploma from the Union Scientifique >Nationale >Francaise, the semi-official institution that operated during the >chaotic conditions of the war. But in what turned out to be a typically > >independent fashion he never bothered to ask for the formal >equivalencies the de Gaulle government issued after the war. >Consequently, he's been accused of having no academic credentials. > > The young man went to work in a laboratory for blood analysis, >and >hated both the routine job and the imprecision of the microscopes he >used. Blurrily he was able to observe something in the blood that had >so far not been defined: other researchers had seen it, too, and called >it "dross in the blood." > > He needed a better instrument. Searching the literature for >research >on blood and microscopy, Naessens learned of a nineteenth century French > >biologist now best known as the "noon lunatic." > > Emile Doyen claimed to have observed through an ordinary >microscope >particles in human blood that were visible only around noon during the >months of May and June. Naessens was as willing to laugh at the notion >as anyone, but began to wonder whether there was any scientific >explanation of Doyen's findings. There was: During May and June, in the > >south of France and at around noon, the natural light available to >anyone using a microscope contained far more ultraviolet light than at >any other time of the year. > > The work of the noon lunatic became the basis for the microscope > >Naessens went on to develop in the late 1940s, working in a lab funded >by his mother at the family home in Lyon. > > An extreme and as yet un-duplicated version of what is now >called phase >of dark-field microscopy, Naessens' instrument allowed him to examine >living blood not only at high magnifications but with extremely high >resolution. > > Although an electron microscope can approach 400,000 X >magnification, >it can do so only with fixed and dead tissue. Naessens' microscope, >which identified particles with light refraction rather than staining, >could approach 30,000 X with living tissue at a resolution of 150 >angstroms (one angstrom is one-hundred-millionth of a centimeter). > > The uniqueness of the microscope has to do with the way Naessens > >manipulates the light source to achieve that extraordinary resolution. >(Several optical companies have approached him over the years but >Naessens has been unwilling to give over control of his life's work to >big manufacturers.) > > What the tool unlocked for Naessens the researcher was a deep >view--the >deepest and as yet unsurpassed view--into the processes of living blood. > > Naessens started by looking at preparations of his own >blood--pricking >his finger, transferring the drop to a slide, watching until the fresh >blood began to clot. > > Through his microscope, he observed what he maintains are >Bechamp's >microzymas: the most fundamental particles of living matter that >exist. He called them somatids (tiny bodies) and through seven years of > >observation concluded that they appeared to play an extraordinary role. > > No cell division was possible without them; they were seemingly >a >precursor to DNA, and probably the bridge between energy and matter. He > >found them all but indestructible, surviving carbonization temperatures >of more than 200 degrees C and 50,000 REMs of radiation (more than >enough to kill a person); they were also unaffected by chemical agents. > > With a better tool to use, Naessens could go way beyond Bechamp, >who >was able to see only the largest of these microzymas. Naessens observed > >the somatid in human and animal blood to develop in a form-changing >cycle. > > The first three changes of this cycle--somatid, spore, and >double >spore--were apparently not only normal in healthy organisms but crucial >to their existence in that no cell division could take place without >them. Having studied what he took to be healthy blood, he began to >study blood from people he knew to be diseased, referred to him by >physicians. Unhealthy blood looked drastically different, and exhibited > >somatids in not a three-stage but a sixteen-stage cycle. > > The other thirteen stages were apparently the result of an >immune >system under stress, and seemed to signal the likelihood of degenerative > >disease up to two years before any symptoms appeared in the organism. > > Naessens began to believe that with observation of the somatid >cycle--in effect, monitoring the physiology of blood--he could figure >out when it was possible to intervene to prevent illness. > Take cancer, for instance. Every body every day produces a few >cancer >cells and a normal immune system destroys them. But when that system >comes under stress, its ability to fight is impaired and the cancer >cells proliferate. > > When the ovum is fertilized by a sperm, growth (or cell >division) >begins: two, four, eight, and so on. There are many such divisions >before cells begin to specialized, some becoming skin, some liver, some >heart, and so on. > > This specialization is controlled by a series of growth hormones >that >"talk" to the various cells' nuclei. These intracellular commands come >from various sources--lymphocytes, for example, controlled by one, liver > >cells by another. > > In normal circumstances, the growth hormones are controlled by >inhibitors in the blood, but when a system is stressed these inhibitors >diminish and more growth hormones are liberated. > > The result is almost a reversal of the cells' "education." They >return >to a simpler state, losing their individuality and "remembering" only >basic functions from their origins, chief of which is the ability to >multiply rapidly and chaotically. > > This, it is thought, is malignancy, the pathological cells >resembling >primitive organisms that have forgotten everything they have learned. > > Naessens, through the microscope he called a "somatoscope," was >able to >observe the consequences of the minimution of sanguine inhibitors and >the liberation of the growth hormone by watching the three-stage somatid > >cycle in the blood suddenly proceeding on through its full sixteen >polymorphic stages--before patients had any conventionally diagnosable >sign that they were ill. > > His next challenge was to figure out how to bolster the immune >system >to correct the imbalances in the body that led to disease. He began >experimenting with ways to combat the effects of degenerative or >cancerous cells by neutralizing their mode of replication--developing a >series of novel anticancer products. > > These early medicinals proved effective enough over a >fourteen-year >period for Swiss and German pharmacies to put them on sale and for >numerous doctors to administer them to patients. (By 1964, more than >10,000 people had been treated.) > > On the strength of his sales, Naessens was able to move his lab >to >Paris in the mid-'50s.. But in Paris he came to the attention of French > >medical authorities, after complaints from some pharmacists and >physicians that this un-credentialed young biologist was dabbling in >healing. > > In the early 1960s, Naessens was twice brought before the bar. >He was >fined heavily, his Paris laboratory sealed, and much of his equipment >confiscated. > > He tried to start again on the island of Corsica, but Corsica >was still >France. Patients began again to seek him out and the authorities were >soon after him. Naessens decided that he had to pursue his work far >from France, in a place he believed to be more open-minded. He left >Corsica for Canada in 1964, carrying only a few key components of his >microscope with him. > > Unable to obtain any funding to pursue his research, Naessens >began >life as an immigrant by working day in an electronics repair shop in >Oka, Quebec. The nights and the weekends were reserved for refining his > >somatoscope. Through some work he did repairing scientific equipment >for several Quebec Universities, he got what seemed to be his first >break. > > A senior professor at the University of Sherbrooke hired him as >a >consultant on microscopy with a Nation Research Council grant of >$25,000. But soon word got around the university of Naessens' trouble >with the medical authorities in France, and overnight the grant and >Naessens' opportunity were gone. > > It wasn't until 1971 that he could begin again as a medical >researcher. A friend introduced him to David Stewart, scion of a >tobacco fortune and head of the McDonald Stewart Foundation, which had >funded unorthodox cancer research for many years. > > After losing a dear friend to cancer, Stewart had vowed to >pursue an >avenue that might lead to a cure, and he was decreasingly confident of >the conventional approaches the foundation supported. He agreed to >finance Naessens' research personally, and established a laboratory for >him on the Mcdonald Tobacco Company's premises in Montreal. > > Naessens' run-ins with the French medical authorities, however, >had >forever branded him as a quack; his name was on the Quebec Medical >Corporation's blacklist. > > His new laboratory infuriated the orthodox oncologists under >Stewart's >wing, and they complained bitterly to the philanthropist. Stewart's >response was to advise Naessens to move his research to some low-key >spot and avoid getting embroiled in any more controversy. > > Engaged by now to Francoise Bonin Sdicu, a divorced lab >technician with >four children, Naessens took over her family's summer cottage in Rock >Forest, on the banks of the Magog river new Sherbrooke. He winterized >and refurbished the place and built a lab in the basement. > > Stewart's next concern was to get independent validation of the >somatid >theory and of the latest of Naessen's immune-system boosters, 714X; this > >was the nontoxic camphor-based medicinal designed to be injected by way >of a lymphatic node in the groin, that was to figure in his trial in >1989. > > Naessens had come to the conclusion - not essentially disputed >by the >orthodoxy - that cancer cells needed nitrogen to survive and "stole" >this nitrogen from healthy cells. > > Discovering that camphor had a natural, if inexplicable affinity >for >cancer cells, Naessens' biochemically linked a molecule of nitrogen to >one of camphor, aiming to force-feed the rouge cells - which would leave > >the immune system free to rebuild itself and fight the cancer. > > Excited by the potential of 714-X, David Stewart approached >McMaster >University Medical Centre in Hamilton, offering to fund an investigative > >research project into Naessen's theory of the somatid cycle and the >potential of 714-X as an immune-system booster. > > The initial meeting at McMaster in March, 1972, went well. The >university was represented by Peter Dent, then chairman of the >pediatrics department and consultant in immunology to the Ontario Cancer > >Foundation. But of all of those present to hear Naessens, the most >impressed was a young assistant professor of pathology and surgery named > >Daniel Perey, who volunteered to head the proposed investigation. > > "The scope and the insight which Mr. Naessens has brought to >this area >of research potentially stand to benefit mankind and may be a source of >pride for Canada." > > Perey's first visit to Naessens lasted eleven days and was by >all >accounts a revelation to him; he saw through the somatoscope a new world > >to be explored. > > The next time he brought Dent with him, assuming that his >excitement >would be shared. But Dent was clearly not happy to look through a >microscope and see something that contradicted the definitions of >disease he'd learned in medical school. > > On returning to Hamilton, he wrote to the National Cancer >Institute of >Canada requesting its opinion of Naessens and his work. The institute >sent him a page taken from a longer report it had published called >Unproven Methods of Cancer Treatment. The page concentrated on an >account of Naessens' trial in France and subsequent fine levied. This >curt dismissal of Naessens' work confirmed Dent's unease. > > But it was still Perey, not Dent who was conducting the >investigation, >and his enthusiasm for the somatid theory remained undiminished. Over >the course of several visits to Rock Forest, Perey observed each of the >forms in the somatid cycle proliferating and their apparent relation to >cancer and other serious stresses on the body. > > He recommended that Stewart's foundation purchase specialized >photographic equipment enabling Naessens to capture these marvels on >film - which was done. But the most telling sign of Perey's commitment >to Naessens' work was a letter he wrote to support Naessens' application > >for landed-immigration status in September, 1972. > > Emphasizing to the government the need for new and imaginative >approaches to the search for a cancer cure, Perey extolled Naessens' >contributions to the field, ending: "The scope and the insight which Mr. > >Naessens has brought to this area of research potentially stand to >benefit mankind and may be a source of pride for Canada." > > Apart from helping to secure landed status for Naessens, this >letter - >a solid endorsement signed by an orthodox medical researcher - augured >well for the future. Or so one would think. > > > > Just over two years later, Perey wrote another letter to >Naessens, >enclosing with it a copy of his final report to the Mcdonald Stewart >Foundation. The report rejected the somatid theory and Naessens' notion > >of bolstering the immune system to fight cancer. > > Even so, Perey tried to reassure Naessens that the report was >not a >condemnation of his work, rather, he wrote, "We have come to different >conclusions and interpretations based on the scientific evidence which >we have gathered, although in many instances we have observed identical >or similar phenomena as you have." What happened to change Perey's >mind? > > Late in 1972, Perey had been assigned other duties that >effectively ate >up the time needed to run the Naessens study. The day-to-day running of > >the project was passed on to a husband-and-wife team of researchers who >were not in the least interested in proving the overarching theories >Naessens has sketched. They were interested only in one large form of >the somatid cycle that had been described as bacterium by German >researchers who had isolated it in the 1930's. > > The couple wished to study claims that this particular form had >an >effect on rheumatism. So although all future reports to the foundation >on the Naessens project were still signed by Perey, their content was >now a product of the new researchers, who did not accept Naessens >explanation for what they observed in live blood through the >somatoscope. They dismissed the stage of the somatid cycle as >"artifacts" produced by mistake during the process required to observe >them. > > Perey, caught between two camps, wrote to Stewart that >"microbiological >dogmas are so entrenched in the couple's minds that they do not allow >themselves the luxury of challenging them." More than that, however, he > >could not give. > > After the McMaster stonewall, Naessens grew skeptical about the >chances >of the medical establishment's ever confirming his views - though his >hopes rose briefly again in 1974 after Dr. Raymond Brown, a consultant >for New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, visited Rock >Forest. > > Brown sent a memo to the centre's director and to staff about >Naessens: >"What I have seen is a microscope that reveals with spectacular clarity >the motion and multiplicity of pleomorphic organisms in the blood which >are intimately associated with disease states. > > "The implications... are staggering... It is imperative that >what its >inventor, a dedicated biological scientist, is doing, and can do, be >totally reviewed. "I am convinced that he is an authentic genius and >that his achievements cut across and illumine some of the most pertinent > >areas of medical science. If the review of his work is confirmatory, >this man should be brought to New York and given unlimited support and >facilities to continue his research." > > Dr. Brown returned to Rock Forest with an oncologist and a >microscopist >from Sloan-Kettering; the three eventually drafted and signed a second >and longer memorandum that reiterated the first. > > These two memos generated much excitement among the hierarchy at >the >celebrated centre until someone noticed that Naessens' name appeared on >the American Cancer Society blacklist. Immediately the memorandums were > >repudiated, the concerns of cancer bureaucrats outweighing the >first-hand observations of expert scientists. > > In August, 1980, Naessens supplied 714-X to Dr. Gaetan Jasmin, a > >professor of pathology and medicine at the University of Montreal, who >was willing to embark on the standard animal-control test, 714-X into >cancerous and noncancerous rats. > > He found that the compound had no effect on the rodents' tumors, >and >his results were reported in the Mcdonald Stewart Foundation literature >in 1982. > > But Jasmin had refused to follow Naessens' protocol for use of >the >drug. He had injected the medicinal into the tumors themselves rather >than the lymphatic system, a procedure he has decided was impossible. >Jasmin had treated 714-X as if it were a standard anticancer drug that >essentially poisons either the cancer of the patient. > > Naessen's whole terrain approach was designed to treat the >symptom via >the cause - the diametrical opposite of orthodox oncological approaches. > > And so Naessens' reputation continued to be vilified among the >cancer >researchers - which may have served only to recommend him to the >desperate underground of cancer patients. Through the 1970's and 1980's > >more and more people flocked to his knowledge hoping for a personal >miracle. > > Through the 1970s and 1980s, more and more people flocked to >Rock >Forest, hoping for a personal miracle. And doctors began to come, eager > >to learn more about Naessen's new biology. Fully aware of the penalties > >for practicing medicine without a license, Naessens was not capable of >turning away anyone who needed help. The suffering were taught to >inject themselves with 714-X, or referred to doctors who were willing. > > All this action was not lost on Augustin Roy, the head of the >Quebec >Medical Corporation. In his eyes Naessens had been a marked man the >moment he had arrived from France; David Stewart's patronage had angered > >Roy but had also caused him to proceed with caution. In 1984 Stewart >died suddenly. > > On December 13 of that Year, the police and officers of the >Quebec >Medical Corporation raided Naessens' house and laboratory, seizing vials > >of 714-X and some 150 medical files that would bring Naessens to trial > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. 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