Alfons Weber
Alfons Weber (born February 22, 1915 in Posen , † October 11, 1994 in Erding ) was a German doctor who became known due to controversial views on the development of cancer , a corresponding therapy and his own test procedure. Weber studied medicine in Berlin and was a military doctor in World War II before opening a doctor's practice in Erding, Bavaria.
Weber was of the opinion that cancer should be regarded as an infectious disease caused by protozoa , and believed to have proven this fact by light microscopic examinations, which allegedly show certain parasites in tissue samples from tumors. The cancer-causing Ca protozoa that he discovered could be transmitted from person to person or from animals or diaplacentally through insect bites . In his light microscopic examinations, he used fixed and non-fixed blood and tissue samples.
Weber documented and published his observations in newsletters, lectures, films and several books, but not in specialist journals. During his lifetime his results were noted by many doctor colleagues, but oncologists like Harald zur Hausen could not understand them.
Weber's theory is not scientifically recognized, but it is popular with some alternative medicine practitioners.
Weber's hypothesis of protozoa carcinogenesis
At the end of 1967 Weber published his work on the cause of cancer and distributed it through numerous circulars to authorities and colleagues. In it he claimed that so-called Ca protozoa were found using a special lighting and preparation technique , which can be detected primarily in blood and lymph, but then also in tumor tissue and in each individual tumor cell. He considered these Ca protozoa to be cancerous . He saw viruses in general as forms of survival of protozoa and referred to them as oozoites and merozoites .
According to Weber, the second condition for cancer development is an infestation of stem cells by the Ca protozoa he has observed. In particular, they can be recognized in native specimens, i.e. not yet fixed living tissue, with his method as small, egg-shaped parasites that move jerkily between cells, sometimes flagellated parasites the size of viruses (or even larger). There would also be an intracellular infestation by these parasites. Weber stated that he could grow these carcinogens at 37 degrees Celsius with the addition of oxygen and a nutrient solution in a climatic chamber and made numerous films of his microscopic observations. Weber relied on the technique of oil immersion in his work .
For the description of the respective assumed developmental stages, he adopted the well-known scientific nomenclature of the malaria pathogens , the plasmodia , which in malaria can also be detected intracellularly in erythrocytes .
Due to the similarity of his Ca protozoa with plasmodia observed by Weber, he also believed in an effective cancer therapy using drugs that act against plasmodia, such as quinine , resochin and primaquine, and reported improvements in the condition of patients in whom he had previously determined a high degree of protozoemia believed.
Weber adopted a four-phase step model of the plasmodial infection process: In the first phase, the Ca protozoa infected the blood plasma, the lymph and the red blood cells; in the second phase, the blood vessel walls would be attacked and overcome. Third, the infection spreads beyond the bloodstream in the nourishing connective tissue and, fourth, crosses the basement membranes of stem cell colonies and invades them. Accordingly, the infection would remain latent in the first stage; in all subsequent stages it would manifest in different ways. Depending on which areas of the organism are more severely affected, manifestations occur on the skin and skin appendages, in bones, joints and ligaments, in the brain, spinal cord and nerve tissue, in the digestive and respiratory organs and in the urinary and sexual organs. The cancerous tumor formation is associated with the fourth phase, in which the fermenting weapons ( enzymes ) of the pathogens in the infected stem cell clusters initially provoke undirected cell growth and then the loss of important, functional cell colonies. This general protozoal infection is based on complex stimulus-reaction processes, in which the pathogenic properties of the carcinogens interact with decreasing, organismic regenerative abilities.
The enormous size differences in the development cycle of the macro parasites (such as when pinworm , liver fluke ) would give reason to believe that it was similar in the endogenous microparasites: Accordingly, the most active and virulent protozoal Jung forms are only virus-large, because the species-specific differences in size continue downward. Even in this small size, the pathogens have their own metabolism, which is clearly different from that of the host cells and damages it with aggressive digestive enzymes. The microparasites observed by him are said to develop from sexually or asexually arising forms of survival, which can impress as lifeless permanent forms. The virus researchers of his time succumbed to the mistake that "viruses are lifeless and borrow the metabolism of a tissue cell". Rather, it is said that there can be no creation of living things from inanimate matter and that is why some of the structures known as cancer viruses are forms of survival of the microparasites he describes.
Contemporary reception history
Weber's anti-malarial therapy for cancer was met with rejection from colleagues and authorities and led to legal proceedings. As a result, there was a dispute with the Bavarian authorities and his practice was closed for years and his license to practice medicine was withdrawn in 1968. In 1972 Weber was admitted to the Haar psychiatric hospital , but no psychiatric illness could be found there. Thanks to a donation of three million marks by a follower, Weber was able to continue his private research despite the closed practice. In 1974 Weber received his license to practice medicine back.
Works by A. Weber
- About the cause of cancer , 1969 published by Gebr. Parcus KG Munich
- Pathogenic protozoa in blood, organ and tumor tissue , illustrated book 1970
- Cause, cause and condition of cancer , Ars medici 1973 No. 2, p. 91
literature
- Bolko Hoffmann : Do we already have potential carcinogens in our blood ?: Current burning questions about the ultimate cause of cancer answered by Dr. med. A. Weber , ES-Verlag Bochum, 1983
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Alfons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and alternative medicine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1994 |
| Place of death | Erding |