Pharmacy History 22 Mar 2004

PHARMACY HISTORY AUSTRALIA
The Journal of the Australian Academy
of the History of Pharmacy ■ ISSN 1445 3398
volume 2 ■ no 23
A U S T R A L I A N July 2004 ACADEMY OF
THE HISTORY
OF PHARMACY
Promoting pharmacy history
PMAC to MEC – the story of registration of medicines
in Victoria
David Newgreen
Photographically produced labels
Geoff Miller
An ordinary pharmacist?
Geoff Miller
Mr Plod and the blue pill
Robert Clyne
A pharmacy dynasty – the Marrison family Margaret Barker, as told to Geoff Miller
The CSL Collection finds a new home at Museum Victoria
Dr Nurin Veis
Book review: Scurvy Geoff Miller
Enemas
Catherine Bartho
Glycerine and black currant pastilles
Geoff Miller
Collectibles: The Bubby Pot Geoff Miller
Pedimenta of interest: Kalgoorlie W.A.
Also
37th International Congess Announcement
Promoting pharmacy history
The creators: Oon, Anna, Melissa, Eileen and Bjorn, 3rd year media students, Curtin University.
In order to stimulate an interest in Pharmacy history among students and new graduates, the Academy is
embarking on an ambitious project to produce a ten minute video film with ‘youth appeal’. The essential messages in the film centre around the pharmacist being the link between the doctor and the patient and the historical reasons for pharmacy being one of the most trusted professions.
The video is being made by a team of third year Film and Television students at Curtin University School of Media and Information in Perth, as one of their major projects for
the year.
Parts of the video will be taken in community pharmacies around Perth, as well as in the Pharmacy School at Curtin. Using the resources of two faculties at the University is a win-win situation for both.
The film will be completed by the end of June and will be distributed to other pharmacy schools around the country for inclusion in their pharmacy practice modules.
This will be a very practical way of assisting with introducing pharmacy history in regional and rural pharmacy schools as discussed by Academy President Ross Brown, in the last issue of Pharmacy History Australia.
New academy logo
The new Academy logo, which was introduced in the last issue of the journal, has well received by the membership and it will be adopted officially from July 1 2004.
The logo design elements are the Bowl of Hygeia and the Serpent. These represent the coming together of Pharmacy and Medicine as well as depicting the handing of the
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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