CHRONIC FITS



As the boy complained of eye strain I sent him Ruta 1x, a dose as needed, to be alternated with Physostigma 3x as needed, anticipating that his eyesight would improve. On February 23rd the young man reported: “I have kept very well indeed and I am very fit. I have had no traces of shakiness for a long time”.

On February 23rd his mother wrote to me, full of gratitude: “My boy is so very much better and his mind is alert and bright without those foul drugs which he had had. He is now writing little articles, very promising. I can never tell you how grateful I am to you. The doctors and the specialists both said he would always have to be under a drug, and did their utmost to wreck his hopes for the future and his confidence in himself. On your doorstep when leaving your rooms, he said to me, Well, if Mr. Barker wants me to give up luminal I cant do it.

I had to persuade and coax him to come to you at all. His only theme was that he would get worse as he got older, and now I was almost afraid when he gave up Luminal so soon. Still, he has never taken it since the first week he was under you, and he is a different lad. I feel sure if he could take his school leaving exam now he would pass. They had done nothing but tell him he never would succeed, and thus they had stupefied his mind. I bless the day when I saw your journal in a window in Wigmore Street with an article by you on an epilepsy cure that led me to you”.

Apparently I have set the young man up for life. He has improved physically and mentally, he has never looked back, and it would be wearisome to quote further letters.

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.