MY TESTAMENT OF HEALING

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I have entitled the book “My Testament of Healing” because I am nearly seventy, and I may not be able to published another book. I have tried to had no to others what I have learned and discovered in the course of a long practical experience with patients of every kind. Without hesitation I have taken on not only cases in which general practitioners have failed, but cases which had defied the greatest specialists.

I have taken on had defied the greatest specialist. I have taken on skin diseases, nerve cases, cases of deafness and blindness, gynaecological cases, etc., even if they came to me from leading specialists.

I have discovered that the knowledge of the specialists is extremely limited. However, I would say that I do not wish to reproach the medical profession as such. I have numerous friends among doctors and surgeons. I have no fault to find with medical men. They try to do their best. The misfortune is that medicine is wrongly taught. The medical student gets nothing but book knowledge during a long number of years. Tuition is given by theorists, by men who are called pathologists, biologists, dieticians, anatomists, etc.

The practice of medicine is neglected. In the olden days there was little or no theory taught. A young man who wished to become a doctor was apprenticed to an experienced medical man and he learned immediately the practical medical man and he learned immediately the practical side of medicine. Nowadays a man may have the doctor title and lack the practical knowledge which one of the old medical apprentices would have obtained in a few weeks of months.

My book is divided into two parts. In the first part I deal with the health advisers work from a broad point of view. The first part contains chapters such as, What Patients Tell the Doctor, How to Interview Patients, How to Diagnose Cases, How to Guide the Patient, Medicines and their Uses, Homoeopathic Medicines and Homoeopathic Treatment, Mistake made in Homoeopathic Treatment, Mistakes made in Homoeopathic Prescribing, Psychological Treatment, Cures by Common Sense, The Misuse of Surgery, The Problem of Diet, Professional Fees, How to Study the Art of Healing.

These introductory chapters are followed by practical chapters in which I describe in the fullest details a considerable number of interesting cases, stating why I have given certain diets or certain medicines, giving samples of diet sheets, etc. These are chapters such as, A Very Bad Case of Tuberculosis, Septicity, Cases of Deafness, Some Prostate Cases, Some Eye Cases, How to Treat Skin Disease, Diabetes and Insulin, A Case of Menieres Disease, Heart Disease, Cancer Cases and Cancer Cures, The Cure of Fistula, Duodenal Ulcer and Unhealing Wounds, etc.

The book is written by a layman both for laymen and medical men. Medicine has lost its way. The standardized doctor who has undergone standardized tuition is taught that there are standardized diseases for which there are standardized treatments. The doctor is taught that for heart disease one should give Digitalis, for diabetes give Insulin, for fever Quinine, etc.

There are no standardized disease, Consequently standardized treatments are an absurdity. Each individual case has to be treated individually. I have had a large number of cases of diabetes but I have never prescribed Insulin, yet I have had a considerable number of cures. I have had a very large number of desperate heart cases but I have never prescribed Digitalis in the usual large doses. I have had an enormous number of cases of rheumatism of every kind but I have never given Salicylates.

I have treated a very large number of goitres but I have never given the so-called specific of Iodine. Fearful mischief is done by the uncritical prescription of so-called specifics. The ordinary goitre is transformed into a far more dangerous form of goitre, exophthalmic goitre, if large quantities of Iodine are prescribed. Many fever cases are quinine poisoned. Insulin has not cured a single case of diabetes but has produced diabetic coma and death in innumerable instances, etc.

Many doctors have come to me as patients; many have come to me have asked my help when they have had intractable cases. So I imagine that both doctors and laymen may find something of interest and value in my volume.

The book is written in the plainest and simplest language, understandable to every layman. I should enable thousands who wish to practise the art of healing to take it up. It is necessary to study stodgy text-books written in un-understandable pseudo-scientific language. Common sense is infinitely more valuable than pseudoscience, or theory which masquerades as science. The book comprises 345 pages us clearly printed on excellent paper, well bound, and is sold at 8s. 6d.

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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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