Flashback Friday: Vet or pharmacist?

Kate Cowling 23/01/2026

It’s May 1955 and the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy reports on the strange case of a chemist moonlighting as a veterinary surgeon at his pharmacy – then denying it The legal case took place in Daylesford, Victoria, where Thomas Patrick Lane was ultimately fined for treating animals. The court heard a “valuable dog” was presented

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