Pharmacy History
Flashback Friday: Government may delist Valium
It’s September 1975 and armed with a Commonwealth-owned pharmaceutical company, the federal government is looking to make savings on the PBS The federal government is moving towards heavier restriction, and …
Flashback Friday: Children ill from free laxatives
Dodgy marketing practices are far from a modern concept: how about free drug samples posted into letterboxes? It’s September 1935, and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy has a couple of …
‘My enemies have forced me to flee from the colony’
A seller of allegedly “noxious drugs” prosecuted, a suggested three-tier pharmacy system and a lucky end to a buggy accident… welcome to the AJP’s August, 1895 edition In an 1895 legal …
Flashback Friday: VD spread vies with measles
Public health measures are failing to slow the spread of venereal disease It’s August 1975 and the Australian Journal of Pharmacy is reporting that efforts to curb rising rates of …
Flashback Friday: Cocaine a dangerous drug
Court quashes possession conviction of man with a mixture of cocaine and phenacetin It’s August 1925 and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy is questioning the wisdom a court’s decision to …
Flashback Friday: drugstores as youth community centres?
It’s 1945, and the AJP is wondering what its readers think about introducing US-style drugstores with soda fountains And it being August of 1945, the AJP was jubilant at the …
The top 10: pharmacy history
Which of our weekly pharmacy history columns were our readers looking at in the first half of the year? Every Friday in the AJP daily newsletter we look back at …
Flashback Friday: Building friendship – the value of service
It’s July 1955, and pharmacists are being urged to look to expand their service offerings to bolster revenues and deliver improved health outcomes for patients Friendships formed between persons working …
Flashback Friday: Are there too many pharmacists?
It’s the 1930s, and Australia really needs to get serious about regulating arsenic, writes the AJP, after a confectioner mistook it for icing sugar Our July, 1935 edition was packed …
Flashback Friday: On the national good
It’s the mid-50s, and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy is concerned with opportunities for pharmacists to help the general public… as well as the end of heroin, a new APF …
Flashback Friday: Government underpaying pharmacists
Survey findings suggest the federal government is leaving pharmacists out-of-pocket, the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy reports It’s July 1975 and newly installed federal Treasurer, Bill Hayden, is under pressure to …
Flashback Friday: Back in the USSR
“You are to be butchered to make a socialists’ holiday!” pharmacists said in 1945, slamming the idea of pharmaceutical benefits We opened our June, 1945 edition with the dramatic tale …