Pharmacy History
Let professional friendships blossom
Health professionals need to put 鈥減ersonal squabbles and disputes鈥� over scope of practice to one side for the betterment of public health聽 It鈥檚 May 1934 and the Australasian Journal of …
Monopolists a threat to small business
Pharmacists are being warned that a long-time ally 鈥渕ay soon be turned into an enemy鈥�, through the creation of a government-backed monopoly聽 It鈥檚 1949 and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy …
Skill and judgement needed on opium
An impersonation scandal, the fate of 鈥淩at Biskett鈥� and some tips on opium for smoking all made the news in April 1904 That month, we reported on a special meeting …
鈥楴othing matters as long as the price is cheaper鈥�
To everything there is a season, the AJP wrote in 1964 鈥� 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聽 It鈥檚 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 …
Don鈥檛 lament the tribunal
We travel back in time to the very first, and late-running, Community Pharmacy Agreement The AJP鈥檚 January 1991 edition outlined how the first CPA 鈥� back then, known as the …
The home front
In between advertising Queen Macassar Oil for setting victory rolls in place and announcing that housewives needed Scrubb鈥檚 Cloudy Ammonia, the AJP told us that many Australians had a case …
If medicines are not special, are magazines?
Newsagents鈥� 鈥渃osy systems of exclusivity鈥� watched by pharmacy as OTC medications head to supermarkets鈥nd should drugs be distributed only through doctors? Welcome to April 1979鈥� Our April 1979 issue opens …
鈥極ur colony is overrun with medical adventurers鈥�
Should only registered pharmacists be able to dispense therapeutic goods? Following the 鈥済reat sensation amongst the druggists in this city鈥� 鈥� namely, a lawsuit over wrongful dispensing 鈥� pharmacists of …
In the Navy: 鈥業t seems incredible that this condition should exist鈥�
It鈥檚 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 鈥� …
鈥楰eeping the chemist in his proper place鈥�
It鈥檚 1894, and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy looks from the colonies to England to consider a vexed issue: prescribing chemists Between a discussion of 鈥渂otanic practitioners鈥� and their concerns …