"Critters!"
Part
6
BIO/TECH
NEWS
Inside
Information on Important Innovations in BioScience and Technology
The
Bacillus Subtilis Story
Dr.
Rothschild backed up his point by telling us the story of
the discovery of the Bacillus subtilis, a bacterial
microorganism that is commonly found in the environment
rather than in humans, yet is well known by modern science
to be very friendly to the human system. It can promote
dramatic healing benefits in humans, even though it isn't
one of the native microbes that normally inhabit the human
body. According to Dr. Rothschild, the story of Bacillus
subtilis goes like this:
"The
bacillus subtilis was discovered by the Nazi German medical
corps in 1941, toward the end of their African campaign.
At the time, the German military victory was at its height.
But the German high command became genuinely alarmed when
hundreds upon hundreds of soldiers in North Africa suddenly
began dying every week. Oddly, the Nazi soldiers weren't
dying because of British General Montgomery's retaliatory
bombs and shrapnel, but instead, they were dying of uncontrollable
dysentery." |
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"Of
course, the Germans were aware that dysentery was caused by pathogenic
(i.e. disease-causing) bacteria from local food and water sources.
But in those days, there were no antibiotics. Sulfur [Sulfa, Sulfonamides]
was already on the market, but only in a topical non-ingestible
form. So with no medication available with which to stop the plague
of dysentery, the Nazis quickly began looking for other means
to help their dying soldiers."
"The
German high command immediately sent out a contingent of scientists,
physicians, chemists, biochemists, bacteriologists and other experts
to help solve the problem. With typical German circumspection, these
top experts reasoned that there must be a natural way to counteract
the deadly bacteria causing the dysentery because, if there wasn't,
the millions of Arabs living in the region would have been dead long
ago."
"Therefore,
the Germans' first step was to closely scrutinize the native Arabs,
and see whether or not they were affected by dysentery. What they discovered
was that the Arabs also caught dysentery, but at the first sign of diarrhea
[the #1 symptom of dysentery --- Ed.] the Arabs would do something quite
incredible: They would immediately begin following around a horse or
camel until it would drop its dung. Then, the affected Arab would pick
up the warm dung droppings, and quickly gulp them down! This strange
procedure effectively eliminated the dysentery almost overnight."
"Once
the good hygienic Germans finally recovered from the shock of seeing
the Arab natives gulping down warm camel dung, they quickly realized
that there must be something in the dung that somehow counteracted the
harmful bacteria that caused the dysentery. They questioned the Arabs,
who told them that they had no idea why it worked, but that their fathers
had always done so, as had their forefathers, and it had always worked.
The only caveat was that the camel or horse dung had to be ingested
while still warm and fresh, because it had no effect on the dysentery
if ingested cold."
"So
the Nazis began carefully examining fresh camel and horse dung. What
they discovered was that it was teeming with a powerful bacterial microorganism
which later came to be called Bacillus subtilis. This bacteria,
it turned out, is so strong that it practically cannibalizes all harmful
microorganisms in the human body --- particularly pathogenic bacteria
like the virulent strain which was causing dysentery in the German troops."
"Within
a very short time, the Nazis began producing hundreds and thousands
of gallons of active Bacillus subtilis cultures for their troops
to ingest. And bingo, no more dysentery! Soon afterwards, the Germans
even discovered the process by which the Bacillus subtilis cultures
could be dried and placed into easily ingestible capsules. From that
time forward, the resourceful Germans had no more problems with losing
troops from dysentery."
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