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Camphor, cocaine and strychnine: welcome to 1914

Megan Haggan 31/05/2024

cocaine — Cocaine. Image courtesy US Drug

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

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