THE DOCTOR SHOULD BE A DETECTIVE

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I had not the slightest idea whether mustard taken to excess could produce heart disease, but I felt quite certain that in logic and common sense this terrible abuse of mustard was bound to do him a great deal of harm, and that in some way or other it might have upset the heart. I told him: “I shall have to stop your mustard.” He became frantic. “I do not mind leaving off anything your like from my diet by It must keep my mustard.” I callously said: “If you wish to commit suicide then you must commit suicide, but I can assure you the end will not be a pleasant one.”

I made some other very disagreeable remarks. He hesitatingly agreed to leave off mustard for a whole month, and in order to make sure I pointed out the danger to him and administered an oath that he would absolutely obtain form mustard for a month. That was the only prescription I gave him. After a month he wrote to me full of gratitude that he was cured, that heart was normal.

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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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