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The average orthodox doctor pays no attention to diet– or to anything else. His whole aim is to make money–honestly if he can, but to make it. More than half of my talk to patients has reference to food.

“YOU ARE OUR LAST HOPE”.

DEAR MR. BARKER,–The average orthodox doctor pays no attention to diet– or to anything else. His whole aim is to make money–honestly if he can, but to make it. More than half of my talk to patients has reference to food.

When I was in London I had notices for all patients to see, such as: “There is no such trouble as growing pains. It is the worst form of rheumatism and leads to heart disease.” “No one who suffers from ear trouble should bathe without having the ears protected.” Doctors who saw these and other notices smiled, and one of them remarked: “If people knew all that, we should have to break stones for a living”.

You ought not to worry about busybodies of the medical profession denouncing and attacking you. Go on and look neither right nor left. In Dr. Clarkes time “THE HOMOEOPATHIC WORLD” was largely read by laymen, and the prided himself on the fact that so many readers, laymen and women, were able to treat themselves and to help others. I have heard of many clergyman living in remote districts who were wonderfully helpful in treating their people.

I have always said that our last hope is in you. If you fail, then good-bye to homoeopathy.

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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.