Unqualified dispensers practicing in the colony

Untrained individuals managing apothecaries and tales of poisonings captured the headlines in the AJP’s third edition   The year is 1886, and a Hobart-based pharmacist writing under the nom de plume, Vaseline, is raising concerns that no less than 10 “unqualified men” are “in charge of pharmacies throughout the colony”.   “Such a state of things has existed far too long,