Pharmacy History 03 Sept 1997

PHARMACY HISTORY
AUSTRALIA
The Journal of the Australian Academy volume 5 no 36
of the History of Pharmacy ISSN 1445 3398
A U S T R A L I A N FEBRUARY 2009 ACADEMY OF
THE HISTORY
Pharmacy History session at PAC Pharmacy History Australia
Future of the Journal
President’s column
Ross Brown
The speakers at PAC
Geoff Miller
The Age of Enlightenment
Geoff Miller
A French Australia? Almost!
Noelene Bloomfield
Health and the explorers
Jim Howard
Alex Trouchet MPS
Kim Trouchet
PSA honour to Radley West Collectables & rubbish
Geoff Miller
Vienna Conference 2009 Call for papers
ANZSHOM
Situations vacant
Only in America!
OF PHARMACY
Viva la French connection
Jim Howard
Noelene Bloomfield
Kim Trouchet
At the October 2008 Pharmacy Australia Congress in Perth, a special pharmacy history session was held with a French theme to highlight the questions:
“Why didn’t the French establish a colony in Australia?”
and
“What would life have been like if we had become a French colony in the west, as happened in Canada?”
One legacy we do have are the 416 French names left on the Australian coastline, the majority being on the south and western shores.
These names form a fascinating “mirror” of pre-and post-revolutionary France.
A panel of three speakers, pictured above, addressed the question with presentations on the historical background, the living conditions, diseases and treatments that prevailed among the crews and commanders of the ships that made these lonely and very dangerous voyages and then the story of a pioneering Western Australian pharmacist Alex Trouchet, as told by his grandson, made for an interesting and lively discussion.
This session was well attended despite running concurrently with a popular counseling competition for young pharmacists.
The pharmacy history session was proudly sponsored once again by the Australian Friendly Societies Pharmacies Association.
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