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Ok, tweeps. It's #Victorian story time. Today I want to introduce you to a man whose last name was definitely Berigny, but whose first name may have been Thiennette or Alexandre Thiennette. /1
(Img: historyofhomeopathy.com.au/component/cont…) A man in a long coat with a big beard leans against a pillar
In the early 1860s, the well-travelled Berigny was happily practicing homeopathic medicine in Australia. He supposedly had degrees from the College of Surgeons of Paris and the Western Homeopathic College in the US. /2
In Australia he had been giving lectures about homeopathy to the public since at least 1855. But then in 1862 a new law required all medical practitioners to register, and most likely Berigny's degrees were considered invalid because they were foreign /3
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