Essay on the Relation of Microrganisms to Disease

In the opening chapter entitled “The Germ Theory of Disease” in his “Essay on the Relation of Microorganisms to Disease”, Jocelyn Proby writes: “It is not, surely, unfair to say that the structure of orthodox medicine is built up in the germ theory of disease. ……. Each disease or group of diseases is believed to be produced by a specific organism which is a separate species of animal or plant, or where such an organism has not been discovered it is assumed to exist but is thought to be ultra-microscopic…….Disease is believed to arise because organisms coming in from outside gain entrance to the human body in one way or another and there work havoc.”

In Chapter One of the Relation of Microorganisms to Disease Proby gives “some outline of the germ theory of disease as it is generally accepted by the orthodox school of medicine and by the public at large…… Our next task must be to discover whether there are not other theories which would account better for the clinical and experimental phenomena which need to be explained and which might provide a basis for a different and more satisfactory system of treatment.”

Jocelyn Proby writes further about this in Chapter Two entitled Alternative Theories in The Essay on the Relation of Micro–Organisms to Disease, asking such questions as “Why do men get diseases?”

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