Pharmacy History
Defending the health of the nation
In this 140th year of the AJP, we reflect on the long and valuable history of Australia’s military pharmacists as reported in its pages When most people think of pharmacists …
Restricted Saturday trading for pharmacies
It’s October 1896, and a movement seeking to limit pharmacies’ weekend opening hours looks set to win out Pharmacists may be Australia’s most accessible health professionals, but Saturday afternoon trading …
Is unity in pharmacy attainable?
It’s September 1946 and pharmacists are being warned that the progress of the profession may depend on disparate factions putting their differences aside to deliver a united front, the AJP reports. …
Pharmacists and conscription
It’s September 1916, the world is at war, and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy is looking at whether or not pharmacists may be exempted from conscription More than two years into the …
A disputed title
Unforeseen technical difficulties in the production of evidence have led the proprietors of this masthead to withdraw action restraining a rival from using the title It is September 1886 and …
Hospital pharmacy: from the basement to the frontline
The hospital pharmacy sector has undergone sweeping changes over its time in Australia—and it’s always seen itself as a champion of change, writes Megan Haggan Ron Batagol, a veteran spokesman …
Flashback Friday: Are pharmacists being scapegoated?
It’s August 1956, and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy is focusing on the economy: and it’s not looking good for pharmacists “The price of medicines everywhere is high,” we noted. …
Flashback Friday: The future from the 70s
It’s August 1976 and the AJP is reporting on the first Proprietary Association of Australia seminar… as well as some advice for the suncare market Partner of the Hawthorne and …
Flashback Friday: Mercury makes a comeback
In 1916, war was raging in Europe – and in the pharmacy sector, members of the profession were facing a shortage in syphilis treatment as well as a lack of …
Flashback Friday: When is a door fastened?
We looked at whether a pharmacy truly counted as being closed when the door remained unlocked, in a legal case from 1966 It’s August 1966, and the Australasian Journal of …
Flashback Friday: Don’t panic
It’s July 1946, and already pharmacists are asking: should codeine products be restricted? “Considerable controversy has taken place in Australia in recent years on the question as to whether codeine …
Flashback Friday: The fatal cough syrup
It’s July 1886, and the AJP complains about the lack of standardisation in certain medicines and the need for “systemic teaching” of pharmacists The brand-new Australasian Journal of Pharmacy covered …