coffee and tea as heat "acts as a cancer poison". The book was negatively reviewed in medical journals for not providing reliable evidence for its claims. A review in the Journal of Cancer Research suggested that the "publication of such a book does a great deal of harm because it misleads those who have no real knowledge and encourages charlatanry, of which there is already too much." A review in the Nature journal commented that "In our opinion the book will do much more harm than good, as it can only have a deleterious action and make people concern themselves with morbid symptoms in their abdomens." A review in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that the book is a "pernicious and harmful piece of literature". George Soper suggested that the book is overloaded with long quotations from Sir William Arbuthnot Lane and concluded that Barker "cannot be said to have advanced the subject of cancer control in any way". Selected publications British Socialism: An Examination of its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals (1908) 101 Points Against Free Trade (1909) Great and Greater Britain (1910) Economic Statesmanship (1918) Modern Germany: Its Rise, Growth, Downfall, and Future (1919) Cancer: How It Is Caused; How It Can Be Prevented (With an Introduction by Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1924) America's Secret: The Causes of Her Economic Success (1927) Good Health and Happiness (1927) Miracles of Healing and How They are Done: A New Path to Health (1931) Cancer: The Surgeon and the Researcher (With an Introduction by Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1932) My Testament of Healing (1939) New Lives for Old: How to Cure the Incurable (With an Introduction by Sir Herbert Barker, 1949) Quotes See also Hastings Gilford Ernest H. Tipper References External links James Ellis Barker 1870 – 1948 (Sue Young Histories) 1870 births 1948 deaths 20th-century British historians 20th-century British journalists Alternative cancer treatment advocates Alternative detoxification promoters British health and wellness writers British homeopaths Cancer researchers German emigrants to England Naturopaths Pseudoscientific diet advocates Writers from Cologne