John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke (1853 – 24 November 1931) was an English classical homeopath, and one of the highest-profile antisemites of his era in Great Britain. He helped found and led The Britons, an antisemitic organisation, from 1919 until his death in 1931. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he received his medical degree in 1877.

Homeopathy

As a physician Clarke had a clinic in Piccadilly, London, which was quite successful, and had many private clients. He also was "chief consulting physician" at the London Homeopathic Hospital. Clarke was a longtime editor of The Homeopathic World, and wrote a number of books on the practice, including The Prescriber: A Dictionary of the New Therapeutics, a standard book in the field.

Clarke criticized the germ theory of disease and experiments of Louis Pasteur. He authored The Germ Theory and the Public, published by the Victoria Street Society in 1892.

Works 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".

Homeopathy

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

Antisemitic White Labour Versus Red England Under the Heel of the Jew (London: C. F. Roworth, 1918)

Anti-vivisection

The Pasteur Craze (1886) Vivisection: A Question of the Day (1887) M. Pasteur at Bay: Failure of the Experiment (1890)