Sue Young Homeopathy

Goulds Pharmacy was established in London in 1849?, and was Chemist by Appointment to the London Homeopathic Hospital.

Goulds Pharmacy still fourishes today, the present Goulds Pharmacies are at 14 Crowndale Road, and at 37 North Audley St, London, W1K 6ZL.

Gould Pharmacies spread to Australia and set up homeopathic Pharmacies throughout these new territories:

A Gould Pharmacy opened in Victoria Australia in 1860. Martin and Pleasance opened in 1860 when Kidner opened his homeopathic pharmacy at 90 Collins Street East.

Thanks to research by Barbara Armstrong in Australia, we can now confirm that Edward Gardiner Gould and James Emery Gould were sons of the Edward Gould who was a homeopathic chemist in London:

There is some confusion about the previously published date for the establishment of Gould & Sons pharmacy (1849).

In the 1851 Census, Edward senior is listed as a ‘porter’. In the 1861 Census he is listed as a ‘homeopathic chemist’ at 100 Pentonville Rd, with another of his sons, Joseph, being a ‘chemist’s apprentice’. (By this time Edward Gardiner had moved to Melbourne to set up business with Samuel Kidner.)

So it would appear that Gould & Sons was established some time between 1851 and 1861 – unless it was established by someone else in 1849 and Edward senior took over the business at a later date.

Edward Gardiner eventually returned to the UK (in the 1870s), where he studied medicine in Ireland (qualified 1876) and then practised in various locations around England. The last one I tracked was in Tunbridge Wells.

In 1860 Edward G Gould joined forces with Mr. Kidner and the pharmacy was renamed Kidner and Gould.

In 1860 Edward G Gould became the sole owner of the homeopathic pharmacy at 90 Collins Street East, renaming it Gould and Son.

In 1864 R J H Martin joined Gould and Son; the business was renamed Gould and Martin. Not long after Edward G Gould returned to England leaving Mr. Martin as the sole proprietor. He retained the name of Gould and Martin.

In 1869 Homeopathic physicians would meet at the rooms of Gould and Martin to discuss the opening of a homeopathic dispensary in Melbourne. In 1878 Charles Pleasance became partners with R J H Martin at which time they renamed the pharmacy Martin and Pleasance.

Charles Pleasance studied medicine and was articled to Martin and Gould before becoming one of the owners. He was born in England and came to Australia in 1855 and was elected the first Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

In 1886 Charles Pleasance became the sole owner of Martin and Pleasance. Up until the closure of the Melbourne Homeopathic Hospital in 1924, Martin and Pleasance supplied the hospital with its remedies.  The son of Charles Pleasance, Frederick, continued to run the family business after Charles.

Succeeding Frederick were the brothers Charles and Phillip Pleasance….

E Gould and Son Ltd of London, publishers of homeopathic literature in the 1870s and 1880s, and also homeopathic pharmacists at 59, Moorgate Street, London (previously 32 Moorgate Street). Chemists by Appointment to the London Homeopathic Hospital. E Gould and Son Ltd purchased the Homeopathic Pharmacy formerly owned by T Casely and succeeded to the business.

Edward G Gould urged for the formation of British Society of Homeopaths, and he was a colleague of William Vallancy Drury, Thomas Engall, John Epps, Edward M Madden, Henry R Madden, Alfred Crosby Pope, and many others.

Edward Gould was a Chemist at the Bromley Homeopathic Dispensary,

Edward G Gould LRCP also practiced at 1 Streatham High Road, and his Obituary is in the American Observer Medical Monthly in 1874.

Edward Gardiner Gould (possibly Edward G Gould’s son?) was a Homeopath in America 1887.

In 1876 Whilst the homeopathic hospital was being built, the Melbourne Homeopathic Hospital operated from a three story terrace house at 17 Spring Street.

It had an outpatient department and 14 beds. It was the first homeopathic hospital in Australia.

The hospital did not have sufficient funds to employ a dispenser, and so purchased their remedies from Gould and Martin (Martin and Pleasance) and Poulton’s pharmacy.

The Gould Pharmacy at 73 Liverpool Street Hobart Australia operated from 1881 until *1999 and was run by Henry Thomas Gould from England.

Henry Thomas Gould was an English homeopath in Hobart Australia in 1891. (*now operating as Gould’s Naturopathica).

Henry Thomas Gould was a colleague and fellow college student of Frank Styant Browne.

Better contact with the other colonies helped to improve standards and stimulated the formation of the Pharmaceutical Society of Tasmania in 1891.

A major proponent of the Society was Henry Thomas Gould, who had established the H T Gould & Co. Homeopathic Pharmacy in Hobart in 1881.

The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney holds a curiously titled booklet published by Gould’s pharmacy in 1899…

After Frank Styant Brown moved his business to Launceston, the Hobart Homeopathic Pharmacy was taken over by Henry Thomas Gould, who later moved premises from Elizabeth Street to Liverpool Street. As pharmacists and homeopaths, Henry Thomas Gould and Frank Styant Browne were instrumental in the formation of the homeopathic hospitals in both Launceston and Hobart.

Henry Thomas Gould is also credited with instigating of the formation of the Pharmaceutical Society of Tasmania. In the State Library of Tasmania there is a wonderful photograph of the Homeopathic Pharmacy in Hobart taken in about 1890 with a horse drawn carriage parked outside. Now known as Gould’s Pharmacy, the chemist shop *still exists and still sells homeopathic remedies amongst the usual array of pharmaceutical products.

The little booklet curiously named the The Medical Telephone is like a tiny first aid handbook or home medical encyclopaedia, with its advice on baby care and the treatment of illness and injury.

Published by Hobart’s Homeopathic Pharmacy in the year that it was established, it provides first hand evidence of the homeopathic remedies that were dispensed at the pharmacy and the host of other products – such as ‘Neave’s Farinaceous Food for Infants and Invalids’ – that the chemist sold.”

Of interest:

Sir Albert John Gould 1847 – 1936 MP for New South Wales was a staunch advocate of homeopathy.

Clarence B Gould homeopath conscripted during WWI.

Francis Carruthers Gould was an artist who sketched William Gladstone.

George Milbury Gould was a publisher in Philadelphia in 1901, and editor of the Philadelphia Medical Journal (he was forcibly removed from his editorship) and Gould’s Medical Dictionary who was critical of homeopathy, but who nevertheless took homeopathic remedies and wrote articles in praise of homeopathy and nasty attacks upon homeopathy!

Herbert D Gould homeopath in America in 1897.

James A Gould homeopath conscripted during WWI.

Jeremy Gould (or J Emery Gould) In 1873 Jeremy Gould from Edinburgh University was appointed honorary physician at the Melbourne Homeopathic Dispensary.

Nat Gould In the Wellcombe Library The Homovet Company, Bedfont, manufacturers of embrocation for human and animal use: letter (incomplete) from Nat Gould, head of the company, Middlesex: letter to Charles Wright setting out its state, with letterhead giving testimonials and a picture of the product, 1913

Rosa Gould homeopath in America in 1900.

Rupert Thomas Gould Thomas Skinner was the maternal grandfather of Rupert Thomas Gould.

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