Additions & Updates in 2017
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Abstract:
Through ongoing research, this website aims to:
- Increase the number of known early 'homœopathists' (practitioners, chemists, supporters), and homœopathic businesses
(hospitals, chemists, dispensaries), and to record details about them and their background.
- Update and correct existing information about these people and businesses.
This page provides a brief record of recent additions and/or changes, with links to the full details for those items.
(Material researched & presented by Barbara Armstrong)
ADDITIONS in 2017:
** (February additions)
Ballarat Free Homœopathic Dispensary - Article describing the establishment and fate of an early homœopathic dispensary in Victoria.
Ballarat Homœopathic Pharmacy - Discovery of Ballarat's first homœopathic pharmacy.
Dr William Ray - Discovery of another homœopathic doctor who practised in Ballarat in the 1870s.
Dr William Joseph Richard Ray - Son of Dr William Ray, another new discovery.
** (April additions)
Frederick Huntley - In 1857 Frederick formed a partnership with chemist John Bell to establish the Sydney Homœopathic Pharmacy, which became known as the Bell and Huntley Homœopathic Pharmacy.
** (August additions)
William Thomas Doyne - Details of one of the early members of the Committee of the Melbourne Homœopathic Dispensary.
** (November additions)
Self Supporting Homœopathic Dispensary - A new discovery of a homœopathic dispensary in Melbourne.
UPDATES in 2017:
** (January updates)
Robert Palk - New information about the life of Robert Palk.
** (February updates)
Charles Pleasance - New information about the life of Charles Pleasance, including his original name and his first pharmacy in Ballarat, Victoria.
** (March updates)
William Moore - Inclusion of photographs of William Moore and his wife Fanny.
** (April updates)
William Larmer - Details about his family background.
Larmer's Homœopathic Dispensary - Involvement in the attempted resurrection of the Sydney Homœopathic Dispensary.
Sydney Homœopathic Dispensary - Details regarding the politics behind the attempted resurrection of the Dispensary in 1865.
Alfred Huntley - Further information about his background, and his business relationships with Dr William Sherwin and Dr John Le Gay Brereton.
Bell and Huntley Homœopathic Pharmacy - Corrections relating to the role of Frederick Huntley in the establishment of the pharmacy.
Dr William Sherwin - Information about his connections with Alfred Huntley.
William Moore - Information about the date of William Moore's arrival in Australia, and the earliest advertisements for his practice.
** (May updates)
Thomas William Charlesworth - Additional information about his family background and movements.
** (July updates)
Henry Allan Fisher - Discovery of the owner of 'Fisher & Co.' homœopathic pharmacy in Sydney.
Martin & Co. in Sydney - Details of their change of ownership.
Thiennette de Bérigny - Extensive updates to the background of de Bérigny.
** (August updates)
Melbourne Homœopathic Dispensary - Listing of the initial committee members.
** (November updates)
Inclusion of photographs of early Melbourne, showing the premises occupied by:
Melbourne Homœopathic Dispensary
The Melbourne Homœopathic Hospital
Dr James Emery Gould - Details of recent research into his life.
** (December updates)
Dr Percy Wisewould - Information regarding his apprenticeship with Martin & Co, homœopathic chemists, prior to studying medicine.
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