Gaston Naessens is responsible for 
several remarkable developments which may revolutionise our understanding of life 
and bring a major advance in cancer therapy. His work started with the invention 
of an amazing microscope, the "somatoscope". This led him to the discovery of 
the Somatid Cycle, and in turn to the development of his serum, 714-X. 
 The 
Somatoscope 
 Naessens' revolutionary microscope, the somatoscope, weaves 
two light sources (one visible, one ultraviolet) together to produce a third, 
functionally higher, frequency with which it is possible to obtain a resolution 
and magnification thirty times greater then with conventional light microscopy 
. (In conventional light microscopy resolution, and therefore magnification, is 
limited by the wavelength of visible light - approximately 4000 Angstroms.) Although 
with the electron microscope there is almost no limit to the magnification, the 
electrons must be beamed through a vacuum, so it can not be used to look at living 
material. Naessens' remarkable somatoscope, however, can view live material with 
a resolution of 150 Angstroms, a magnification of 30,000 diameters. That magnification 
reveals a whole new world in a tiny drop of blood. The world that Gaston Naessens 
sees in that drop with his somatoscope is quite different from what we were taught 
at school! He sees that our blood is alive with a teaming micro-ecology. This 
is how Gaston Naessens discovered the somatid. 
 Somatids 
 In all 
living plants and animals Naessens observed tiny creatures. He called them somatids 
- "little bodies". He says that in the healthy organism the somatids have a simple 
three stage life cycle (a simple viroid form, spores, and double spores). This 
he named the microcycle. The somatids are symbiotic - they've always been with 
us, and we need them. However, when the body is under stress the somatids elaborate 
into a more complicated macrocycle, a sixteen stage cycle. The macrocycle is parasitic 
and is associated with the development of immune compromised diseases - such as 
cancer. Naessens' theory is that there are inhibitors in the blood that keep the 
somatids in the healthy symbiotic microcycle. Under stress these inhibitors may 
be lost and our friends, the somatids, turn into opportunistic parasites. So, 
in the 16 stage macrocycle bacteria-like and fungus-like forms grow from the somatids. 
This elaboration of forms is termed pleomorphism. The somatid pattern can function 
as an indicator of serious disease. The somatid pattern associated with cancer, 
for instance, is usually observed in the blood up to two years before the manifestation 
of the disease. This allows us to get a really early warning when we are headed 
for trouble or it can be helpful in keeping track of the progress of a preexisting 
disease. By monitoring the somatid phenomenon we can observe a patient's response 
to both orthodox and alternative treatments, and to life style changes. 
 Pleomorphism 
and Darkfield Microscopy 
 Although developed in isolation, Gaston Naessens' 
theories are part of a larger body of work that we may call "the darkfield work". 
His somatoscope is a very special variation of the darkfield microscope. All those 
who have worked extensively with darkfield microscopy, with live blood, have come 
up with similar stories of pleomorphism. In conventional "brightfield" microscopy 
we send light directly through the specimen, and so we can't see the specimen 
(thin slices of tissue, including blood, are transparent) unless we stain it canadian propecia. 
And to stain it we have to kill it. So again, as with the electron microscope, 
orthodox science, with all its sophistication, looks at dead material. With darkfield 
microscopy light is shone onto the specimen from the side. We look at reflected 
light against a dark background. This gives us a highly contrasted image. We don't 
need to stain the specimen, and therefore we can examine at living material. The 
darkfield microscope allows us to observe the somatid's pleomorphic cycles. 
 
One of the first scientists who talked about pleomorphism in human blood was Béchamel, 
a contemporary and rival of Pasteur. He called the little bodies he observed "microzymes". 
Enderlein in the first half of this century called them "protits". In the 1930s 
Rife built a darkfield microscope comparable to Gaston Naessens'. He too saw pleomorphism. 
 Pleomorphism is a natural adaptive response of microorganisms. When the environment 
allows they are virus-like, bacteria-like, or fungus-like: they metamorphose to 
suit their conditions. When we are healthy they help us. According to Naessens 
they produce a growth hormone that is essential for cell division in all plants 
and animals. Biologist call this sort of mutually depended relationship "symbiosis". 
However, when we are unhealthy our friends, the somatids, turn on us and become 
parasitic. But this parasitism is a process that can be recognised by darkfield 
microscopy and it can often be reversed. Most important, we must find out what 
stressors caused the problem, and correct the situation. 
 714-X 
 
Gaston Naessens' next invention was the development of a treatment that he calls 
714-X. 714-X is a nitrogenized camphor derivative (trimethylbicyclo-nitraminoheptane). 
As I understand it the rationale behind this treatment is as follows: Gaston Naessens 
learned that tumours are nitrogen traps. They steal nitrogen from the body and 
this inhibits the immune system. By supplying nitrogen to the tumour and the body, 
the immune system is disinhibited, and the body begins to heal itself. (Camphor 
has a natural affinity for tumours and, as it is not toxic at pharmacological 
doses, it proved to be the perfect vehicle to carry the nitrogen to the tumour 
and the body.) The serum is injected "paranodularly" - that means next to the 
lymph nodes - so it is absorbed into the lymphatic system where it can act most 
directly. People close to Gaston Naessens' work believe that 714-X is best used 
early. While they believe it may save one in twelve of the terminally ill patients 
who turn to it on their death beds, and maybe one in six of the advanced cancer 
patients who try it as a last hope, when it is given early in the disease process, 
they feel that it might help almost everyone. Further, anecdotally, even in advanced 
cancer, 714-X may greatly improve quality of life. 
 The normalization of immune 
function is not only of benefit with cancer; 714-X is also thought to help to 
stabilize, though not to cure, AIDS, and to be of benefit with other disorders 
in which the immune system is compromised. To date no adverse reactions or side 
effects have been observed beyond some irritation at the site of injection. 
 
In 1990 714-X was made available through Health and Welfare Canada's Emergency 
Drug Release Program and it can now be ordered by any MD. More than 800 patients 
have received 714-X, and it has recently been transferred from experimental to 
investigational status. 
 Gaston Naessens' remarkable work promises a whole 
new understanding of biology. It leads to a new perspective and, hopefully, a 
great advance in cancer treatment. 
 To make his work more widely accessible 
Gaston Naessens has designed a modified version of the darkfield condenser that 
allows the observation of the somatid cycle that he discover with his somatoscope. 
Under the banner of "The Canadian Institute of Alternative Medicine" I purchased 
Naessens darkfield system and offer the "somatid observation" in Toronto. Phone 
416 928 9272 or email normanallan
Darkfield 
microscopy brings us a window into the body and a road to a new understanding. 


 Norman Allan, Ph.D., is a research scientist and practitioner of alternative 
therapies based in Toronto. For more information phone 416 928 9272. 
 
Towards 
a bottom line
2007: when I was 
first using the microscope in 1994, I would often damage the sample to one extent 
or another. Then all sorts of monsters might appear in the sample. Were those 
Naessans' medusaheads? 

I once saw somethings that looked like this 
 
turn into a threesome 

 and then a disc! 

Something 
's going on. I must write of my encounters with pleomorphism.
While 
I was learning to use the darkfield techneque I helped initiate and was involved 
in a wonderful collberative effert with some of the brightest lights in the oncology 
and academic community and Naessens stepsons (who were wonderfully open, bright, 
and competant) to study 714X, say in lung cancer, but Naessans said "Non".
Meanwhile 
my friend Ralph had an enthusiastic encounter with 714 and Gaston that faded when 
data wasn't open. There are no clinical trials, there is no good data, and that 
seems to be because of Gaston...
so to me 714-X 
walked off into the distance, 
but pleomorphism?
bottom 
line?
714-X is not 
toxic. For many patients with enthusiasm for the product it has been a blessing, 
but there is no knowing how many. Naessens was not open and there is no good data 
on the effectiveness of 714-X.
Quite a 
number of people call me about 714-X, but there is nothing more than the above 
(except for some gossip) that I could tell them...
visit 
Dr. Allan's home page 

 
Appended information:- 
The Somatoscope: "Two light sources, one incandescent 
with a wavelength of 3,300 angstroms, the other ultraviolet of 1,850 angstroms, 
start pulsating, producing a third wavelength. This wave goes through a monochromator 
which produces a ray. This ray is exposed to a magnetic field (the Zeemann effect) 
which splits it into parallel rays. One of these rays is treated by a Kerr cell 
which increases its frequency. This cell is then stimulated by a step generator-oscillator 
at frequencies which vary from 250 to 1,200 megahertz. The modulation of a visible 
light frequency ranging from 250 to 1,200 megahertz produces a basic frequency 
ranging from 250 to 1,200 megahertz, but also harmonics at a higher frequency 
(if we use light in the order of 2,000 �). ... the resolution of this instrument 
is in the order of 150 � and the power of its magnification varies from 2,000 
to 30,000." (Gaston Naessens) 
 Pleomorphism: In a scientific article 
published in 1992 it was shown that yeast, starved of nitrogen, undergoes pleomorphic 
transformations. This work both parallels darkfield's pleomorphism and vindicates 
Naessens' rationale for 714-X. (Gimeno et al. Unipolar Cell Division in the Yeast 
S. cerevisiae Lead to Filamentous Growth: Regulation by Starvation and RAS. Cell 
68:1077-1090. March 20,1992) 
Cancer and Pleomorphism: "The number 
and forms of the bacteria seem to mirror the state of systemic sickness in cancer 
patients, and, by following the appearance of the blood by darkfield microscopy, 
the patient's therapeutic progress can be monitored." Macomber. Cancer and Cell 
Wall Deficient Bacteria. Medical Hypotheses 32, 1-9, 1990.