What's In A Flu Shot

"Through a physician in Brittany, Nonclercq came across a thick tome on the history of a medicine in which she read that, on his deathbed, Louis Pasteur had declared: 'Claude Bernard was right... the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything.' " What Pasteur omitted was that his confession had been based not on a single insightful statement by Frances leading physiologist, Bernard, but by Antoine Bechamp, the man with whom he had been locked in struggle for decades."--Christopher Bird

'A thick tome'?

Does this weighty beast have a name?

Here's an extract from The Life of Pasteur by René Vallery-Radot, first published in 1900:

Pasteur's strength diminished day by day, he now could hardly walk. When he was seated in the Park, his grandchildren around him suggested young rose trees climbing around the trunk of a dying oak. The paralysis was increasing, and speech was becoming more and more difficult.

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The eyes alone remained bright and clear; Pasteur was witnessing the ruin of what in him was perishable.

How willingly they would have given a moment of their lives to prolong his, those thousands of human beings whose existence had been saved by his methods; sick children, women in lying-in hospitals, patients operated on in surgical wards, victims of rabid dogs saved from hydrophobia, and so many others protected against the infinitesimally small!

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But, whilst visions of those living beings passed through the minds of his family, it seemed as if Pasteur already saw those dead ones who, like him, had preserved absolute faith in the Future Life.

The last week in September he was no longer strong enough to leave his bed, his weakness was extreme. On September 27, as he was offered a cup of milk: "I cannot," he murmured; his eyes looked around him with an unspeakable expression of resignation, love and farewell.

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His head fell back on the pillows and he slept; but, after this delusive rest, suddenly came the gaspings of agony. For twenty-four hours he remained motionless, his eyes closed, his body almost entirely paralyzed; one of his hands rested in that of Mme. Pasteur, the other held a crucifix.

This, surrounded by his family and disciples, in this room of almost monastic simplicity, on Saturday, September 28, 1895, at 4:40 in the afternoon, very peacefully, he passed away."

Next.

Delightful. Touching. The man is still an overrated footnote.

Natural health and immunity is so much more substantial than "germs" and other hypochondria. "Germ theory" is just that -- a theory.

Humans are not vulnerable machines: they are creative, living energy systems. If you choose to debase yourself by believing otherwise, please: be my guest! It's your life/death.

'overrated footnote'? I guess that makes you a full stop, which would be good advice for you, if you plan on carrying on in commenting on science that you do not understand.


Now, is "Germ Theory" a theory in the same sense that Evolution is a theory?

Also, feel free to actually answer my question and supply the name of the thick tome that supposedly quotes Pasteur.

That's two questions I'd appreciate you directly answering. I'm willing to be convinced but u anti-vaxes so far seem unable.

... I have dozens of sources and facts revealing the truth about the vaccine and flu, I wish brainwashed people who are scared by the media by a flu that kills less people than the seasonal/ normal flu would do some research on this topic. Look at the full story.

I would be happy that so many irrational thinkers believe in conspiracies and therefor won't get innocullated. Darwin Awards all around, unfortunately these idiots become carriers of the Flu, this allows an environment for mutation & potentially kills off innocents who already have compromised immune systems, like asthmatics, babies and old people. It is unethical to engage in risky behavior like wallowing in ignorance. Don't make decisions based on someone elses dad got sick. Science saves.

Have less chance of getting 'flu?