Goode

  • Full Name:
    Benjamin Powell Goode
  • Role:
    Unregistered practitioner
  • Occupation/s:
    Storekeeper, Merchant and lay homœopath
  • State:
    South Australia
  • Date first identified using homoeopathy in Australia:
    1860s
 
Born in 1842, Mr Goode came to Australia in 1858, along with his three brothers. He worked as a storekeeper at stores in various locations which were owned by his brothers, including at Mt Barker, Goolwah and Yankalilla. In early 1880 he joined his brother’s business at Port Pirie. The main store, built in 1904-5, was described as the “handsomest in the main street”. Established in 1878, this general store was one of the oldest establishments in Port Pirie, and sold all manner of goods.

 

The Cyclopaedia of South Australia of 1907-1909 reported that Mr Goode had studied homœopathy “during the past 40 years” (which would have meant from around 1867 or 1869 at which time he was in Yankalilla). “And for his convenience and practice at Port Pirie, has a room in the main building, where patients are received and medicine dispensed.”

 

© Barbara Armstrong

 
  • Created:
    Tuesday, 22 March 2011
  • Last modified:
    Sunday, 10 August 2014