BRIRY, MILTON STORY – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

RIRY, MILTON STORY, M. D., of Bath, Me., was born m the town of Bowdoin, in that State, May 17th, 1825.
His grandfather, Thomas Briarhurst, or Brierhurst, was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to Maine about the time of the revolution, settling at
Bowdoin, where he raised a large family. Joseph, the youngest of his sons, was the father of the subject of our sketch. He appears to have been a man of
rather uncommon capacities, having been a famous trainer of youth, and a justice of the peace for many years. By an Act of the Legislature he had his
name changed from Briarhurst to Briry. Young Milton’s education was directed at the ordinary district school until he had reached the age of sixteen,
when he attended the Litchfield Academy. The youth was, however, compelled to give up his studies at this time ; for his father, dying, left
injunctions that Milton should work upon the farm for the benefit of his mother and sisters. He did his duty without complaint, looking to the future
for recompense, which finally came and in such amplitude as to make full amends. After be arrived at the age of twenty-one, the limit prescribed by his
father, he again attended Litchfield Academy, teaching school during the winter months, and intending to prepare himself for Bowdoin College. By the
advice of Dr. Cochran, however, he gave up the idea of a general college course, and decided to study medicine. He attended his first lectures in the
Medical School of Bowdoin during the winter and spring of 1850, and after three full courses -reading, in the meantime, with Dr. T. G. Stockbridge- he
received his diploma in May, 1853. After this he was assistant to Dr. Haley, at Lubec ; visited New York and the great hospitals of the
metropolis ; and finally coming to Bath, entered into practice. This, it must be remembered, was all on an allopathic basis. Some three years after
his graduation he commenced the study of homœopathy with Dr. W. E. Payne, and speedily becoming a convert to the reform doctrines, grew to be one of
the most able as well as enthusiastic exponents of the system. His practice is large and constantly increasing, and very few medical men in New England
are more widely or favorably known than Dr. Briry. He is also a man of good executive power, and has been entrusted by his fellow townsmen with various
offices of honor and responsibility.

Source : Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By
Egbert Cleave