Pharmacy History
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 …
Flashback Friday: A PBS co-pay increase?
It’s 1985, and pharmacy is shocked at an increase to the PBS co-payment Then Labor treasurer Paul Keating had just delivered a mini-Budget as the AJP put together its June, …
Flashback Friday: GPs oppose the ‘wicked counter prescriber’
It’s 1895, and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy reports on where GPs are laying the blame for a reduction in their lifestyles In our June, 1895 edition, we reported on …
Flashback Friday: Phenacetin ‘safe and beneficial’
It’s May 1965, and change is in the air when it comes to the metric system – if not a certain medication which would later be banned We reported on …
‘Tobacco product selling is the wrong place to draw the line’
Should pharmacies sell cigarettes – and is warning customers about the dangers of smoking a reason to do so? It’s May 1975, and the hot topic at the Australian Journal …
‘Indiscriminate sale’ of morphia examined
Victorians battle opium, English pharmacists warn of non-prescription morphine and cocaine, and a brand-new barbiturate hits the market… welcome to May 1905 Our English correspondent reported on an address to …
Flashback Friday: ‘The fight is on’
Pharmacists must hold firm to ensure the survival of the profession’s independence in the face of external threats It’s May 1950, and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy is urging pharmacists …