Claude Bernard ( 1813-1878 ) “The terrain is everything the germ is nothing.

” And on the death bed of Louis Pasteur admitting to Claude Bernard that he was right in 1895. Antoine BeChamp ( 1816-1908 ) ” Illness is born in us and from us. ” Florence Nightingale – a famous nurse ( 1820 -1910 ) Mathias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann ( 1839 ) Gunther Enderlein ( ( 1872- 1968 ) Walter B.

Cannon ( 1871-1945 ) “Only by grasping the knowledge of the body shall we accomplish the mastery of illness and discomfort that may enable us to alleviate the burden of the people. ” Royal Raymond Abundant ( 1888-1971 ) Wilhelm Reich ( 1897 – 1957 ) Gaston Naessans ( 1924-2005 ) Philosophically speaking, Pasteur had a supporter in Napoleon III, who attained power in 1852. The Emperor trusted in a police state and in using complete control to reign. Pasteur’s mechanistic notion of illness, finding the right remedy for each germ, fit into this philosophy of control. Giving the responsibility to the any state to cure disease gives up control.