Pharmacy History
Don’t lament the tribunal
We travel back in time to the very first, and late-running, Community Pharmacy Agreement The AJP’s January 1991 edition outlined how the first CPA – back then, known as the …
The home front
In between advertising Queen Macassar Oil for setting victory rolls in place and announcing that housewives needed Scrubb’s Cloudy Ammonia, the AJP told us that many Australians had a case …
If medicines are not special, are magazines?
Newsagents’ “cosy systems of exclusivity” watched by pharmacy as OTC medications head to supermarkets…and should drugs be distributed only through doctors? Welcome to April 1979… Our April 1979 issue opens …
‘Our colony is overrun with medical adventurers’
Should only registered pharmacists be able to dispense therapeutic goods? Following the “great sensation amongst the druggists in this city” – namely, a lawsuit over wrongful dispensing – pharmacists of …
In the Navy: ‘It seems incredible that this condition should exist’
It’s February 1944, and several years into the war, Australians are shocked to learn that there is only one lone pharmacist working in his professional capacity in the Navy – …
‘Keeping the chemist in his proper place’
It’s 1894, and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy looks from the colonies to England to consider a vexed issue: prescribing chemists Between a discussion of “botanic practitioners” and their concerns …
Bureaucracy framing its own pharmacy ‘policy’?
It’s 1984, and pharmacy is questioning the influence of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Remuneration Tribunal…and looking at the “new technology” of 8mm video The first Community Pharmacy Agreement – known as …
Tricky methods
It’s 1934, and the AJP takes a look at a symbol which would shortly become notorious, while PDL and the Guild warn of pharmacy tricks and traps “The German leader, …
Pharmacy’s standing under threat
Pharmacy organisations need to focus on retaining the status among the public, a leading academic warns It’s February 1924, and pharmacists are being warned that the profession needs to change …
‘Cut prices degrade pharmacy’
Massive discounting driving pharmacy to the brink of extinction, AJP warns – 100 years ago It’s December and time for every publication worth its salt to look back at the …
Body to advise on drug imports lauded
Appointment of expert committee to assess drugs a “step in the right direction” after thalidomide tragedy, says 1963 AJP It’s July 1963 and the world is still reeling from the …
AJP pays tribute to JFK
The late president – assassinated 60 years ago – had described the pharmacist as “an indispensable link in the chain of national health protection” It’s December 1963, the world is …