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Editorial
This issue of Pharmacy History Australia is the 24th edition and it completes the second volume of our Journal with an other 20 page issue.
Enclosed is a cumulative index for issues 13-24, and at a quick glance it is quite amazing to see the diversity of subjects we have included for your reading enjoyment.
This has been achieved because we have been very fortunate to have
the support of an impressive line up of contributors from both Australia and overseas, and whilst that support continues you can be assured that you will be getting the full value of your subscription to the Australian Academy of the History of Pharmacy.
One of the aims of the Academy when it was formed in 1996 was
to ‘disseminate the knowledge
of Pharmacy History to all pharmacists and practitioners through national publications as well as through localised activities’. I think we have done rather well in that regard.
One of the most popular subjects that we have addressed has been Australian pharmacy dynasties as these stories reflect how the history of pharmacy is so very much a part of the social and scientific history
of mankind, and that is why we are continuously asking for you, our readers to put something about your own history down on paper and submit it for publication in
these pages.
In the past four years we have
looked at the personal histories of the Titcher family who had four generations of pharmacists, the Browne family with three generations of Tasmanian pharmacists, the Wells family of four generations, and four generations of the Marrison family
in Victoria.
We have also looked at the personal histories of Dr Byron Stanton, Alfred Sisson, John Tawell, Honoria Lyons, Moses Ward, Sir Anthony Brownless,
Caroline Noble
Caroline Noble, Qeensland’s first female pharmacist, Eric Kirk, Sydney Wolifson and Lieutenant Gwyneth Richardson, the first woman pharmacist in the Australian
Defence Force.
The ‘jewel’ that is pharmacy has many facets and it is the combination of all of the areas impinged on by pharmacy that make such
absorbing stories.
These published histories help to give s a clear understanding of the constancy that runs through the whole history of our profession.
But we not only have constancy, we also have had great changes,
and the lessons we can learn from the past, can guide us into the future.
As Academy President Ross Brown, said in the July 2004 issue of this journal, ‘historical research does not only revolve around great men (and women), it is changing rapidly and these changes challenge us to clearly define our aims and objectives in our contemporary world.’
Geoff Miller, Editor.
From the Editor’s desk
Help!
Has anyone ever heard of Black & White Pills?
The sort of thing that was kept in the bed side table – for what ever reason. Contact the Editor please (in the strictest confidence).
Corrections: PMAC – MEC Article, Pharmacy History Australia #23, July 2004
Some of the references for the
paper written by David Newgreen have been transposed. Any reader who would like a corrected list of references should contact the Editor.
Eric Kirk
Margaret Barker
Byron Stanton
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volume 2 ■ no 24 ■ November 2004