Pharmacy History
1995: moving to boost professionalism
September 1995: a new pharmacy organisation has just been launched, an inquiry into the pharmaceutical industry is ongoing, and employed pharmacists are looking for more work A “long-awaited” industry initiative …
1945: Peace and the PBS
Pharmacy leaders welcomed the end of World War II in our August 1945 issue, but a war of words was building over the government’s Pharmaceutical Benefits bill Pharmacy leaders expressed …
1920: Pharmacists being muzzled
There were concerns about the ‘muzzling’ of country town pharmacists in August 1920, meanwhile discussions were under way to develop a code of ethics for the profession A recent case …
A trip back to 1970
Is the ‘honeymoon’ over for medicine advertising of ‘open sellers’, AJP was asking in September 1970 as the Guild debated a move to Canberra A Senate hearing in 1970 heard …
What a difference a century makes
Pharmacy was getting bad press due to some convictions for supplying cocaine, while there was concern about out of date poisons legislation in the July 1920 edition of the Australasian …
A history of prosecutions
The way pharmacists have been regulated, the punishments they experienced and the types of offences involved have changed over time. David Newgreen reports on his survey of reported prosecutions of …
It was 50 years ago today…
Calls to restrict analgesics to S3, concerns over pharmacy only range ‘leakage’, debates over advertising medicines! Welcome to July 1970 Should the advertising of pharmaceuticals to the public be stopped? …
Advertising in the 1930s
A Tasmanian news magazine from August 1930 shines a light on advertising claims for medicines of that time, writes Ralph Tapping The Illustrated Tasmanian Mail was a 70-page weekly magazine …
1969: the right kind of pharmacy
Is the professional-style pharmacy out of date? Is the ‘Chemist-Mart’ on supermarket lines inevitable? These questions were being asked by AJP in October 1969 A report in the October 1969 …
Dealing with epidemics
Ralph Tapping takes a closer look at two relatively recent epidemics that generated fear and apprehension, but also led to vital medical breakthroughs  In our last column, we discussed the …
1969: pharmacists vs bricklayers
Pharmacy’s problems escaped the “average housewife and the ‘man in the street’” back in 1969, although the public doubted “they would earn as much as a bricklayer” A four city …
The plague doctor
Plague and pandemics have been with us for as long as humans have been on the earth. Ralph Tapping looks at some historic examples and how the current pandemic fits …