Pharmacy History
Flashback Friday: Is pharmacy doomed?
This was the cheerful question with which we busied ourselves in the mid-50s, worried about the potential end of retail pharmacy It’s November 1955, and after noting the countdown to …
Flashback Friday: ‘Victorian pharmacists are suffering a great disability’
It’s October 1925… and what’s going on in Victoria that has the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy up in arms? We began our edition 100 years ago by thundering that there …
Flashback Friday: Pharmacy battles inflation
Could the Whitlam government’s approach to drug prices result in pharmacists going “on strike?” The Whitlam government only had a few weeks left before the infamous Dismissal of November 1975: …
Flashback Friday: Should pharmacists spend less time in the dispensary?
It’s October 1965, Australia has just celebrated Pharmacy Week, and the AJP is excited about its theme, “For Safety Destroy Old Medicines” The theme had been sponsored by the Pharmacy …
Flashback Friday: ‘Ring your MPs to put the sword into this monster’
Who says doctors don’t appreciate pharmacists? In the mid-80s, we reported on medicos’ attitudes towards their pharmacy colleagues and the advice they offer It’s October 1985, and the AJP has …
Flashback Friday: The ease of unfounded cases
A pharmacist accused of chloroforming a patient, a series of poisonings and a grocer advised to stop selling drugs… welcome to October, 1905 We began our October, 1905 edition by …
Flashback Friday: Fake diseases
With the world at war questions are being raised about radio advertising for medications to treat “nebulous complaints” the September 1945 edition of the Australasian Pharmacy Journal reports A writer …
Flashback Friday: The secret of successful retailing
It’s May 1955 and secrets are being spilled. In this case, it’s about how to bring in customers with retailing tricks, such as a lick of paint, adding a price …
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 …