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PHARMACY HISTORY AUSTRALIA
The Journal of the Australian Academy
of the History of Pharmacy ■ ISSN 1445 3398
volume 3 ■ no 25
A U S T R A L I A N March 2005 ACADEMY OF
THE HISTORY
OF PHARMACY
The western pioneer The sons of Maw
Geoff Miller
Maw trading names and bottle marks Susan Watts
What’s in a name? Derivation of drug names
Book review – ASPIRIN Sal Volatile
Kodak – the name from thin air
Geoff Miller
Red Cross pharmacies
Geoff Miller
Once upon a time ... Charles Conway MPS
Geoff Miller
Fox Pharmacy dynasty
Radley West
Edward Mayhew
Geoff Miller
JL Townley: The Power of Ethical Advertising
Geoff Miller
Old pharmacy furnishings – The Drug Run
Geoff Miller
The western pioneer
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his is the first issue of Pharmacy History Australia in Volume 3, and our popular family dynasty articles feature strongly again in this issue.
A story with a twist is about the Queensland pharmacist who filled his shop
window with orchids in full bloom, rather than have a dreary display of patent medicines or photographic supplies to attract his customer’s eye.
But one of the biggest stories however is associated with the bequest of a genuine pharmaceutical heirloom to the Western Australian Pharmaceutical Society. The travelling medicine box pictured here is really a collector’s dream, and the story of its owner is on page 12. The contents reflect the type of treatments that were available in emergency situations when the pharmacist was the ‘paramedic’ of yesteryear. All pharmacists should be grateful that such a piece of history now belongs to the whole profession, as it is part of our heritage.
Charles Conway’s travelling Medicine Chest. (See page 12)
As the President has said in his column, with the availability of historical pharmacy artefacts drying up, we should all be on the alert to encourage further philanthropy of this magnitude.
In addition, for your summer reading, we have gathered together some stories that are linked by the sub-heading of ‘What’s in a name?’
The Kodak story leads the way because this is probably one of the best known brand names right around the world, and yet it has no real meaning!
Our book review in this issue is about ‘Aspirin’, the universally known name that became the generic term for a patented discovery. There are also some snippets about how some well known prescription drugs were named and then a plea for information about the use of the name ‘Red Cross Pharmacy’.
Geoff Miller
Editor’s note
Contributions from members are always welcome, especially family histories of pharmacists.
The opinions and views of the authors of articles
in this newsletter are their own and not necessarily those of the publisher, the Australian Academy of Pharmacy History or the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. Every care is taken to reproduce articles as accurately as possible but the publisher accepts no responsibility for errors, omissions or inaccuracies.
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