HOW THEY KEEP HOMOEOPATHY ALIVE

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Every attempt was made to stifle homoeopathy and to exterminate its professional adherents. It was hoped that homoeopathy would gradually die out through the public becoming ignorant of the homoeopathic art of healing and through it becoming impossible, or almost impossible, for laymen to find homoeopathic doctors.

In Germany homoeopathic physicians put the fact that they are homoeopathic physicians on their brass plates, a thing which is disallowed in this country by the General Medical Council. They mention the fact that they are homoeopathic physicians in their articles, contributed to the newspapers, and medical directories and general directories mention that doctor so-and-so is a homoeopath. A German who falls ill need only look through the Post Office directory, or the telephone directory to find a homoeopathic physician. A stranger to London will not find the address of a homoeopathic doctor in any publication accessible to laymen.

He might possibly find a homoeopathic physician if he should discover the address of the Homoeopathic Publishing Society or of a homoeopathic chemist and make enquiries there. For decades the ruling majority of doctors have tried to suppress the homoeopathic minority and unfortunately their attempts at extinguishing it are not being resisted by the homoeopathic doctors. Hahnemann would have raised hell under the circumstances and he did raise hell when his envious and incapable colleagues tried to suppress him.

Germans who wish for homoeopathic treatment can easily discover a homoeopathic doctor and they can easily obtain information on homoeopathy, literature, medicines, etc. The great house of Schwabe and several other eminent homoeopathic chemists supply the general chemists of the country with medicaments and literature. It appears that more than 5,000 German chemists stock the homoeopathic preparations of Willmar Schwabe and large metal plaques and other signs outside general chemists proclaim that the homoeopathic preparations of Schwabe can be obtained.

Very frequently a part of the general chemists shop is reserved to the homoeopathic department. I have looked in at numerous chemists in Germany and found that the assistants had quite a good notion about homoeopathic remedies, a good stock of homoeopathic medicines and a considerable quantity of popular homoeopathic literature, much of which is handed gratuitously to those interested in Homoeopathy, while there are numerous pamphlets which are sold at a normal price. Besides, the Leipzig journal and similar journals are kept.

While I was in Germany I talked about homoeopathy with everyone I encountered. Even clerks, housemaids, waiters, railway men, had some notion of homoeopathy and a large percentage of them were interested in homoeopathic treatment, or in treatment by Schusslers Tissue Remedies. I have talked homoeopathy to hundreds and hundreds of middle-class people in this country and only a fraction of one per cent. knows anything about homoeopathy. Homoeopathy is dying out in this country, and it seems largely unnecessary that this beneficent science should be extinguished owing to the malevolence and ignorance of the orthodox majority and the indifference or connivance of homoeopathic doctors themselves.

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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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