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.