pharmacy history
‘Nothing matters as long as the price is cheaper’
To everything there is a season, the AJP wrote in 1964 – as the season of weighing up professional quality against price came around again W.R.Cutler wrote a guest editorial …
Whither pharmacy?
Pharmacists need to highlight the value they offer as greedy grocers snatch front-of-shop sales It’s April 1934, and GG Jewkes, the vice president of the Federated Pharmaceutical Service Guild of …
Pharmacy staff work hours capped at 58 per week
Should pharmacy workers be compensated if they are brought down by anthrax, arsenic poisoning or phosphorus poisoning? Our 1914 issue had the answer Industrial relations were on the agenda in …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Pharmacists protest…about corks
It’s 1913 and the AJP writes that pharmacists voted to protest against a proposed increase in duty on a then essential for the profession…plus we covered some tragic poisons misadventure …
When pharmacy ‘had to strive hard for fair and reasonable treatment’
It’s October 1953, and the AJP’s editorial exhorts pharmacists not to rest on their laurels when fighting injustice “Admirable advice was given recently by His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir William …