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Angela Baker
Hobart, Tasmania

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Note:

While the details in this article were based on the knowledge available at the time of publication in November 2002, more recent research by Barbara Armstrong has revealed quite a number of factual errors:

• Dr Ebenezer Atherton was not the first homœopathic practitioner in Hobart. Credit for this goes to Frederick C. Atkinson who, 18 years earlier in 1848, established a pharmacy called The Homœopathic Establishment.
• Dr Matthew William Gutteridge arrived in Tasmania in 1886, not 1887.
• Andrew John Baden Jenner arrived in Tasmania just one month after Dr Atherton, prior to Dr Benjafield and Dr Gutteridge. Although not accepted as a qualified medical practitioner, he practised in Hobart, followed by Launceston and northern Tasmania.
• Dr Philip Douglas Smith arrived in Tasmania in 1898, not 1896.
• Hobart's Homœopathic Pharmacy was established in 1878, not 1883. The Pharmacy was established by Dr Benjafield, not Mr F Styant Browne.
• Henry Thomas Gould arrived in Tasmania in 1880. He became manager of Dr Benjafield's Hobart Pharmacy, before becoming a partner in later years.
• Launceston's Homœopathic Pharmacy opened in 1883 and was also established by Dr Benjafield. Mr Styant Browne, who had arrived in Tasmania in 1882, was its manager before purchasing the business in 1885. Dr Samuel Brown provided consultations from the premises of the Pharmacy.
• The newspaper item referred to in the article relates to the Launceston Pharmacy's new location in Brisbane Street, in 1884.
• The Northern Homœopathic League was formed in 1897, prior to the formation of the Southern Association. In 1898 they joined to form the Tasmanian Homœopathic Association.

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