CHILDBED FEVER CURED WITH SULPHUR


CHILDBED FEVER CURED WITH SULPHUR. I had a case of childbed fever with sepsis. The patient was a lady of twenty-two years, and had had her second baby. Her delivery had been normal, but she developed high fever and had rigors and flushes of heat and outbreaks of sweating. She complained of bad headaches, her abdomen was exquisitely tender, she had pain all over the body, her urine was very thick and concentrated, there had been no stools for three days, and her discharges were scanty and very offensive.


DEAR MR. BARKER, I have just read the August issue of “THE HOMOEOPATHIC WORLD,” which I like very much, and I was much interested in the article on childbed fever, which Dr. Duncan contributed to your July number. Autotherapy is no doubt very effective, but homoeopathy will often do all that is needed.

I had a case of childbed fever with sepsis. The patient was a lady of twenty-two years, and had had her second baby. Her delivery had been normal, but she developed high fever and had rigors and flushes of heat and outbreaks of sweating. She complained of bad headaches, her abdomen was exquisitely tender, she had pain all over the body, her urine was very thick and concentrated, there had been no stools for three days, and her discharges were scanty and very offensive. Her temperature rose to 103 degree. I gave her a dose of Sulphur 200, as all her symptoms clearly pointed to that remedy, and gave her a second dose six hours later. These two doses cured her,and she made an excellent recovery without any further trouble.

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.