Camphor, cocaine and strychnine: welcome to 1914

The Australasian Journal of Pharmacy’s May 1914 edition featured fines for selling poor-quality paraffin, the International Opium Convention and a crackdown on strychnine We began with an article on Bacteriology for Pharmacists, penned by one J. Beetham Wilson, who began his piece by raising an issue very familiar to us a hundred years on: scope