DOCTORS OR LICENSED POISONERS

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I do not mean to say that they are dope vendors in the same sense in which dealers in Opium, keepers of Opium dens, Cocaine peddlers, etc., are dope vendors. The latter belong to the criminal classes. It is not statutory crime to ruin or kill a patient by means of poisonous dopes prescribed medicinally. It is merely a sign of incompetence on the part of the prescriber.

Sir William Willcox has proposed legislation restricting the sale of these dangerous substances. Such restriction would be ruinous to those incompetent doctors and nerve specialist who live by prescribing benumbing drugs. Nerve specialists and general practitioners have pleaded that people who cannot sleep must be given Veronal. Doctors have cured sleeplessness before Veronal was known.

In the first place sleeplessness can often be cured by non-medicinal means. A sharp walk before going to bed followed by a hot footbath, combined with an early suitable meal will prove curative in numerous cases. If this does not suffice massage along the spine and massage of the feet may give sleep, and if these measured prove ineffective, there are homoeopathic remedies, which are unfortunately unknown to the nerve specialists, that will give sleep, allay excitement, etc.

I would recommend Sir William Willcox, Sir Maurice Craig, and other leading men of the orthodox profession to get in touch with some good homoeopaths and discover how they treat their nerve cases without Veronal. Luminal, Bromides, etc.

Some little time ago a very distinguished lady came to me. She was in despair. She had been taking Veronal by doctor;s orders every night for four or five years and it failed to act longer although she had increased the quantity. The homoeopathic prescriber does not treat the name of a disease, such as insomnia. A parrot can be taught “For insomnia give Veronal”. The homoeopath wishes to know what are the peculiar physical and mental symptoms of the patient and he bases on these his prescription.

Careful enquiry elicited the fact that the lady was extremely restless, highly strung, exceedingly sensitive to pain, had neuralgia, an unusually active mind, palpitations, and she had an intolerance for coffee, which she liked, but which upset her badly. All her symptoms pointed clearly and insistently of Coffea. She was sent a box of sugar pills medicated with an infinitely small quantity of roasted coffee in solution, and was told to take a dose before going t bed and , if necessary, upon waking up.

A week later she wrote that she had had best nights which she had had for years, that the new medicine was for more potent than Veronal, and therefore probably far more dangerous, and that she has stopped it. I told her in reply that she could safely take this very effective medicine every night in any quantity to the end of her days. She could not possibly take more than one grain of coffee even if she lived to a hundred. Incidentally that medicine benefited her general health and enabled her to drink beloved coffee.

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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.
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