It harmonises with the white walls of hospitals, the white dresses of nurses, and it may suggest purity or cleanliness to the brainless. But white meat and fish become as putrid in a stagnant bowel as “butchers meat” which was not allowed by Mrs. Bs advisers. She was very constipated, and had been given tonics for her heart, and she did not perspire at all. On the basis of the information given by her daughter and of a photograph, I sent on the 2nd March directions to the old lady whom I had never seen, worded as follows:.
“You are 70 years old, not a very great age, you look somewhat flabby, and you are troubled with your heart and nerves. The health of the heart and of the nerves depends on their nutrition. I hope to strengthen both vastly by purifying and strengthening your blood and body, and I hope you will help me and become rejuvenated. I have handled successfully far more serious heart cases than yours.
“Go to stool three times a day, whether you feel the need or not, but do not strain.
“Take three times a day, three-quarters of an hour before meals, about a tablespoonful of liquid paraffin, you regulating quantities by results. Stools should be as loose as cow dung and as yellow as mustard. Having swallowed the paraffin, sip half a tumblerful of cold water.
“Breakfast. Thick barley gruel with plenty of milk in it, a lightly boiled, poached or a raw egg stirred in milk, stale whole meal bread and thin butter, grated mild meagre cheese, two cups of very weak China tea, slightly sweetened.
“Mid-day meal. Vegetables boiled without salt or soda in the minimum of water, vegetable water to be reduced by cooking separately, and to be drunk at some convenient time, mashed potatoes done with plenty of milk the potatoes used for this purpose should be boiled in their jackets a lightly boiled, poached, or a raw egg stirred in milk pudding or macaroni cheese.
“Afternoon tea, two cups of very weak China tea, slightly sweetened, with little stale wholemeal bread, thinly buttered, and honey if liked.
“Evening meal. More or less like mid-day meal.
“After evening meal. Sip vegetable water.
“Before going to bed, take hot footbath, strengthened with mustard to improve circulation, and to draw blood away from heart and head. Have the headposts of your bed gradually raised with the same object in view, have some extra pillows under your head, and have two hot water bottles to your feet. Get up very slowly and gradually, particularly if you have to make water or empty your bowel.
“Report progress once a week and act with wise discrimination, not with mechanical obedience to these directions, for no one understands the working of your body better than you do yourself. If you are in difficulties, write at once.”.
She was given a small dose of Sulphur 3x night and morning to clear the blood and re-establish perspiration, and she was to take between meals a dose of Crataegus 1x. The diet was rich in mineral elements and vitamins, was not heating and was likely to strengthen her body. In the introductory paragraph and in an accompanying letter I had given the patient every possible encouragement. She felt hopeful and confident and gradually forgot the gloomy forecasts of her former doctor and the heart specialist.
Medicines were frequently changed. She was given Ceanothus 1x because her spleen was enlarged, etc. On April 18th, six weeks after the beginning of the treatment, her daughter wrote: “My mother-in-law is doing remarkably well and has gone out to tea, looking quite well and walking with quite strong steps and upright. Various people have seen her lately and remarked how very much better she is doing and looking.” She improved steadily and became a totally different woman. Her daughter-in-law wrote to me on June 21st.
“I know that my mother-in-low is ever so much better. The doctors and the specialist said she would be a confirmed invalid. When she started your treatment she spent all her hours lying down. Now she rests in all about two hours each day”.
On October 10th I was told:.
“My mother-in-low has had a most wonderful summer, walking a good deal and everybody remarking how well she looked. It is a twelve month now since she had her first attack.”.
A few months later the daughter-in-low considered Mrs. B. cured.
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.