It is said that by observing a viper numbed by the cold and coming to warm up to regain its vigour, Quinton developed the foundations of what he would call
the law of original constancy.
This original law of constancy is the synthesis of several laws including:
Law of marine constancy
"Animal life, which has appeared as a cell in the seas, tends to maintain, for its high cellular functioning, through the zoological series, the constituent cells of organisms in the marine environment of origin".
Thermal constancy law
"In front of the cooling of the globe, life appeared in the state of a cell by a determined temperature tends to maintain for its high cellular functioning, in organisms indefinitely raised for this purpose, this temperature of the origins. »
Law of osmotic constancy
"Animal life, which appeared as a cell in seas of a given saline concentration, has tended to maintain, for its high cellular functioning, throughout the zoological series, this concentration of origins. »
It is therefore by observing the behavior of a viper confronted with cold and heat that Quinton developed his theory of thermal constancy.
It is for this theory that he was described by the journalists of his time as the French Darwin.
It is true that his law of original constancy completes Darwin's theory, but it also contradicts it.
Evolutionary theory aims to consider that organisms move further away from their original environment each day by making transformations adapted to the surrounding conditions.
While Quinton with his law of original constancy, on the contrary, demonstrates that organisms have an extremely strong tendency to maintain invariable the primitive conditions of life.
It was based on the premise that the Earth had a high temperature at its origin, and that over time it would continue to cool. Life began at a temperature close to around 44°C in the oceans. As the planet cooled inexorably, animals that appeared at that time did not have the capacity to maintain their temperature at the original level, i.e. 44°C.
As a result, when the Earth fell to 42°.... 40°... 38°C etc, all these animals also followed these temperature drops.
This is the case of reptiles and amphibians, which have no power to raise their internal temperature and have remained at the same temperature as the environment in which they live.
But over time, the cells have adapted and over the years, new species have been created from old ones, capable by combustion of significantly increasing their temperature in order to fight against the cooling of the environment.
Thus, when the Earth went from 44 to 43°C, the reptile organism also decreased by one degree, but that of mammals, with an internal combustion capacity, increased by one degree, thus maintaining itself at 44°C.
But when the global temperature dropped by another degree from 43 to 42°C, reptiles, as usual, followed the drop in temperature,
while mammals, having maintained themselves at 44°C when the ambient temperature was 43°C, could not increase it to 43°C.
Then a new organism will be born from the old one and adapting to this new drop in temperature, it will develop a growing calorific value capable of increasing its temperature by 2° in order to be at 44°C... the original temperature, etc.
This Quinton theory shows that the evolution of living organisms is only the consequence of the constancy of cells to maintain their temperature at that of their origin, i.e. 44°C.
This means that the newest species must have a temperature close to 44°C and the oldest must have a much lower temperature.
This theory literally changed the conclusions of scientists of his time, such as the physiologist Charles Richet who, in his work "la chaleur animale", concluded that the temperature of mammals was essentially maintained between 37°C and 39°C.
In order to verify this theory, Quinton began taking temperature measurements on different species of animals to support his thesis.
The result was irrevocable.
The most recent species such as carinate birds do have a temperature close to 44°C, and older species such as platypus have an average temperature of about 30°C.
Quinton also took the temperature of one of the oldest bird species, the Aptérix (or Kiwi), for which he set a theoretical temperature of about 37°C according to its period of appearance on Earth; and the temperature of the Aptérix was measured at 37.2°C.
Consequently, this does mean that the internal temperatures of the species indicate the date of their appearance.
But then, what about Man with his 37°C?
In this logic, not only does this not make us a recent species, as the theory of evolution would like us to be but what's more, we wouldn't be the logical consequence of an adaptation since our supposed monkey status either.
In other words, we have arrived on Earth as we are today.
Because if not how else to explain such stagnation since homo sapiens, and that for Darwinists, it is simply inconceivable.
On October 8, 1896, Quinton gave a more detailed presentation on this subject at the Academy of Sciences, entitled "Les deux pôles foyers d'origine. Origine australe de l'homme"
Only the physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey would be interested in Quinton's theories, which he would even take under his wing.
However, if the law of thermal constancy stipulates that the cells function optimally at a temperature close to 44°C, we now understand the natural logic of fever.
The increase in temperature allows the body, when it is sick, to mobilize its immune defenses.
Fever has a direct effect on pathogens while stimulating the body's defenses.
Even if fevers should not be too high, the fact remains that this natural phenomenon is more to be monitored than fought, as we still do too often today.
In "The Secret of Our Origins: The Healing Virtues of Seawater Revealed by René Quinton", André Mahé wrote
"A German, Professor Henri Lampert, drew a number of observations from Pasteur's experience with chickens. The Japanese, who use hot baths extensively, have a very low number of cancers in the statistics, twenty times lower than the current figures.
During the last war, Lampert cured himself of typhoid fever by using high-calorie baths. On the Russian front, he managed, thanks to this means, to overcome an epidemic of the same disease[typhoid]: he made soldiers take baths at 43°C.
Together with another German, Professor Goetze, Lampert tried to treat superficial cancers, then they extended the method to other cancers.
To explain the results obtained, Lampert and Goetze state:
"When the body temperature is artificially raised to 39°, the malignant cell begins to wither, and at 42°, it perishes; on the other hand, the healthy cell easily withstands an internal temperature of 43°, and is only in danger at around 45°. »
Whatever the value of the hypothesis, it is striking to note that, in the experiment, Lampert and Goetze fall exactly on the figure highlighted by Quinton[44° C], as being the one where life could appear and which tends to preserve to maintain its high cellular functioning. »
- André Mahé - "Le secret de nos origines révélé par René Quinton" - Ed. Le courrier du livre - p133 et 134
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