A BAD CASE OF TUBERCULOSIS



He exclaimed on seeing me, Why, Mary, what have you been doing to yourself? He mentioned that the last time he saw me he wondered if he would see me alive again. He was so delighted to see me so much better. He has a very high opinion of Homoeopathy if it can effect such a change.”.

Of course, the case is not finished yet. A woman in the condition of Miss M.B. needs continued treatment for about two years. One had to rebuild the constitution of such a patient who had never had a proper chance, who was sick not merely from birth but from before birth.

With patience and perseverance one can obtain magnificent results in such cases. This article shows that even in the most unpromising cases one can obtain wonderful improvement but he must show sympathy, give reasonable hope and attend to all the needs of the patient, physical and spiritual. Diet and exercise have to be regulated. No factor that can prove helpful must be omitted. One must take unending trouble to reap a rich reward.

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.