THE LIFE OF HAHNEMANN

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The life of Hahnemann and the lesson which it teaches medical men and lay healers are of the utmost value and they can scarcely be compressed into a slender volume. HAHNEMANN was one of the greatest geniuses of all times, a wonderful physician, the most successful of his age, and a great pioneer.

  HAHNEMANN was one of the greatest geniuses of all times, a wonderful physician, the most successful of his age, and a great pioneer. He was centuries before his time, and may well be compared with Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. The achievements of Hippocrates and Hahnemann have been ably compared by professor Cawadias in an article published on another page. Biography is the most interesting part of history and it is the most difficult to write.

There are hundreds of biographies of Napoleon, but there are only two or three good ones, if so many. The late Dr. Richard Haehl spent twenty years of his life in collecting material and writing the history of Hahnemann in two large and profusely illustrated volumes, published at two guineas by the Homoeopathic Publishing Company. The translation from the German was done principally by Mrs. Marie L. Wheeler, a valued contributor to this journal, and it is wonderfully well done.

The book is a classic, and it should be read not only by every homoeopath, professional or lay, but by every orthodox medical man and every one interested in history, for it is a historical masterpiece, one of the few outstanding biographies of the world, which deserves reading and re-reading. I myself have read it several times. It is an abiding possession.

Mrs. Rosa Waugh Hobhouse, an enthusiastic homoeopath, has had the enterprise and the daring to write a life of Hahnemann in a short volume, published by the C.W. Daniel Company, at 7s. 6d. It is a good book, and it will no doubt be appreciated by many who have not seen the magnificent production of the late Dr. Haehl. It takes a long time to make a thing short.

The life of Hahnemann and the lesson which it teaches medical men and lay healers are of the utmost value and they can scarcely be compressed into a slender volume. Mrs. Hobhouses book runs to about 60,000 words, while Haehls classic comes to 700,000 words. Haehls book gives us not only ten times as much matter, but it enables us to see Hahnemann at his work and it is replete with masses of indispensable practical information. We hope that every reader of the new volume will be induced to study Haehls Hahnemann. He will be well rewarded.

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J. Ellis Barker
James Ellis Barker 1870 – 1948 was a Jewish German lay homeopath, born in Cologne in Germany. He settled in Britain to become the editor of The Homeopathic World in 1931 (which he later renamed as Heal Thyself) for sixteen years, and he wrote a great deal about homeopathy during this time.

James Ellis Barker wrote a very large number of books, both under the name James Ellis Barker and under his real German name Otto Julius Eltzbacher, The Truth about Homœopathy; Rough Notes on Remedies with William Murray; Chronic Constipation; The Story of My Eyes; Miracles Of Healing and How They are Done; Good Health and Happiness; New Lives for Old: How to Cure the Incurable; My Testament of Healing; Cancer, the Surgeon and the Researcher; Cancer, how it is Caused, how it Can be Prevented with a foreward by William Arbuthnot Lane; Cancer and the Black Man etc.