THE DOCTOR AS A DETECTIVE

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Enquiry into the past revealed the fact that at the age of fifteen he was shot over the handlebars of his bicycle, fell on the top of his head, lay stunned for a long time and that the attacks came on only afterwards. It was a clear case of Arnica. Further enquiry revealed the fact the man had a mania for salt and condiments. He was in the habit of taking about two tablespoonful of salt per day, prodigious quantities of pepper, poisonously strong tea, boiling hot, vinegar by the quart, pickles by the gallon, was consequently terribly thirsty, drank at least a gallon of water with his mid- day meal and consumed from six to sixteen glasses of beer at odd hours.

The eminent specialists had not thought it worth while to find out these ghastly facts by putting a few questions. The poor fellow would, in course of time have been driven to the lunatic asylum by bromide and luminal, and if he had died of these dopes there would have been a certificate of natural death on the part of the doper.

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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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