OVERDOSING OF ANIMALS

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OVERDOSING OF ANIMALS. “During long experience I have become aware of numerous cases of grave damage, or even of death, resulting from the inexpert and indiscriminate dosing of animals, particularly horses. Passing in review the examples of some thirty years and bearing in mind that it is only more serious cases which would come under my notice, I am painfully impressed by the wide prevalence of this practice, often dangerous, occasionally no doubt beneficial, but in the main, futile and expensive.

IN a letter to the Editor of The Times, headed “Dosage of Animals,” Dr. G.D. Lander wrote:

“During long experience I have become aware of numerous cases of grave damage, or even of death, resulting from the inexpert and indiscriminate dosing of animals, particularly horses. Passing in review the examples of some thirty years and bearing in mind that it is only more serious cases which would come under my notice, I am painfully impressed by the wide prevalence of this practice, often dangerous, occasionally no doubt beneficial, but in the main, futile and expensive.

“As most human beings are fond of doing themselves or their dependents, very often as a matter of routine, I am not too hopeful that any counsel of mine will relieve the horse. I am prepared to allow full credit to the psychological value of a dose to oneself, but I suggest that it is a mistake to allow such credit to an animal. A horse is not a consenting party. It seems terrible that a creature should willy nilly be liable to have poured into him some more or less mysterious and more or less useless remedy, ranging from table salt to a potent alkaloid.

“The object of medicine is restoration to the normal. Prolonged empirical dosing involves continuous and cumulative disturbance of the normal physiological balance. It means derangement and impairment of the bodily function. In few words, specific disorders apart, the best physic is food, comfort and nursing.”.

We entirely agree with Dr. Lander. Unfortunately the over dosing to which he rightly objects is inflicted not only on our animals by vets., but upon ourselves by qualified doctors. Homoeopaths often find it more difficult to deal with the drug diseases inflicted upon their patients by allopaths than with the original disease for which they sought treatment in the first instance.

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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.