title: Antoine Béchamp: pere de la biologie. Oui ou non?
abstract: There is an alternative medicine lobby that, in conjunction with antivivisectionists, believes Louis Pasteur to have been a fraud [R. Bottomley's You Don't Have to Feel Unwell! (Newleaf, 1994) is a recent example]. They frame their accusations around a rivalry between Pasteur and a contemporary, Antoine Béchamp, from whom they suggest Pasteur stole his ideas and then distorted them for his own purposes. This article explores some aspects of the controversies between Béchamp and Pasteur.
authors.affiliation: University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Manchester
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology / Q000266:history*; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D015871:Scientific Misconduct / Q000266:history*