John Henry Clarke

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John Henry Clarke
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John Henry Clarke
Born1853
England, United Kingdom
Died24 November 1931
NationalityEnglish
Scientific career
FieldsHomeopathy

John Henry Clarke (1853 – 24 November 1931) was a prominent English classical homeopath. He was also, arguably, the most important anti-Semite in Great Britain. He led The Britons, an anti-Semitic organisation.[1] Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he received his medical degree in 1877.[2]

Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes.

Politics[]

Clarke was a leading advocate of anti-Semitism and served as president of The Britons from its formation[citation needed] in 1919 until his death as an associate of Henry Hamilton Beamish. He wrote several articles on Christianity that have a militant bent. When Beamish became a fugitive and fled England, Clarke became the head of The Britons, and formed with two others a splinter organization, the Britons Publishing Society.

Works[]

Clarke was keen in his writing and it is even said that he had a desk in his carriage[citation needed]. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica (i.e., the Clinical Repertory), both of which are recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's rules on "Conditions under Which Homeopathic Drugs May be Marketed".[3]

List of homeopathic books by Clarke[]

  • A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine and Homeopathic Treatment
  • Catarrh, Colds and Grippe
  • Cholera, Diarrhea and Dysentery
  • Clinical Repertory
  • Clinical Repertory (Indian edition)
  • Constitutional Medicine
  • Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 3 volumes (British edition)
  • Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 3 volumes (Indian edition)
  • Diseases of Heart and Arteries
  • Grand Characteristics of Materia Medica
  • Gunpowder As A War Remedy
  • Hahnemann and Paracelsus
  • Homeopathy Explained
  • Indigestion-Its Causes and Cure
  • Non-Surgical Treatment of Diseases of Glands and Bones
  • Prescriber
  • Prescriber (Indian edition)
  • Radium As An Internal Remedy
  • The Revolution in Medicine
  • The Therapeutics of Cancer
  • Therapeutics of the Serpent Poisons
  • Tumours
  • Un Diccionario De Materia Médica Practica (3 volumes)
  • Whooping Cough

List of anti-Semitic books by Clarke[]

  • Call of the Sword
(London: Financial News, 1917)
  • England Under the Heel of the Jew
(London: C. F. Roworth, 1918)
  • The British Library has the following informative catalog entry on subsequent imprints of the above:
System number 001142406
Title England under the Heel of the Jew: a tale of two books
viz. “The Jews and Modern Capitalism”, by Werner Sombart, and
“A Thousand Million Pounds”
by and .
Arranged by the author of “The Call of the Sword” [John Henry Clarke].
Second edition.
Publisher: London: “The Britons”, 1921.
Physical descr. pp. 90; 8º.
Added name CLARKE, John Henry, Physician to the London Homeopathic Hospital.
Related item England under the Heel of the Jew: a tale of two books
viz. “The Jews and Modern Capitalism”, by Werner Sombart,
and “A Thousand Million Pounds”, by and .
Arranged by the author of “The Call of the Sword” [John Henry Clarke].
pp. 111. C. F. Roworth: London, 1918. 8º.
Related item Other edition available: England under the Heel of the Jew: a tale of two books
viz. “The Jews and Modern Capitalism”, by Werner Sombart,
and “A Thousand Million Pounds”, by and .
Arranged by the author of “The Call of the Sword” [John Henry Clarke].

See also[]

  • Domestic medicine
  • On Homeopathy
    • List of important homeopaths
  • On Anti-Semitism
    • The Britons
    • Henry Hamilton Beamish
    • Protocols of the Elders of Zion

References[]

  1. ^ "John Henry Clarke". The Homoeopathic Recorder. XLVII (3). 1932.
  2. ^ Clarke, John Henry (1877). "Syphilis in its relation to pregnancy". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ FDA/ORA CPG 7132.15 at www.fda.gov

Further reading[]

  • Gisela C. Lebzelter Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918–1939 (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1978) ISBN 0-8419-0426-X; (London: Macmillan, in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1978) ISBN 0-333-24251-3
  • Colin Holmes (British historian) Anti-Semitism in British Society (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1979) ISBN 978-0-8419-0459-0
  • Colin Holmes (British historian) "New Light on the Protocols of Zion" in Patterns of Prejudice Vol. 11, No. 6 (November–December 1977), pp. 13–21
  • Colin Holmes (British historian) "The Protocols of Zion of The Britons" in Patterns of Prejudice Vol. 12, No. 6 (November–December 1978), pp. 13–19

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