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PHARMACY HISTORY
AUSTRALIA
The Journal of the Australian Academy volume 3 ■ no 33
of the History of Pharmacy ■ ISSN 1445 3398
A U S T R A L I A N NOVEMBER 2007 ACADEMY OF
THE HISTORY
President’s column
Ross Brown
The Delahuntys of Queensland Bronchodilated blues
Bernard Carney
Hudsons, the great antiseptic remedy
Radley West
Da chemist’s code Geoff Miller
The wizard oil man
Geoff Miller
The good oil Goanna Salve.
Grasshopper ointment
Geoff Miller
ISHP Congress report
Dr Peter Worling
Interstate cricket challenge
Dick E.Bird
The death of a pharmacy
Brendan West
McMullan’s pharmacy c 1925
OF PHARMACY
History was made in Melbourne
Pictured at the History Seminar, Geoff Miller (Academy Secretary) , Jim Howard AFSPA.
Ross Brown (Academy President) David Newgreen and Barrie Cathcart. (Photo courtesy of Andrew Ashton)
Asuccessful Pharmacy History seminar, attended by over 50 Academy members and guests, was held at the PAC Congress in Melbourne on Saturday August 25th, this year.
The keynote speaker, known to most Victorian members as a Pharmacy Board inspector, was David Newgreen who presented a scholarly paper on how the Commonwealth Government has become increasingly involved in all aspects of pharmacy law and the centralisation of power. Copies of this paper can be obtained from the author.
Supporting David was Jim Howard, the Managing Director of National Pharmacies in South Australia and his paper traced the history of the Friendly Society dispensaries in Australia. For too long pharmacists viewed the Friendly Societies as the ‘old enemy’ – but that reputation was unjustly incurred mainly through ignorance.
The Academy is grateful for the generous sponsorship of the Seminar by the Australian Friendly Societies Pharmacies Association.
To finish off the afternoon, Barrie Cathcart, the doyen of Pharmacy artefact collectors, gave a well illustrated talk on pharmaceutical ceramics. It was Barrie’s personal collection that was bought by PDL a few years ago to be the foundation of its pharmacy inheritance.
The next PAC Congress will be in Perth in October 2008, and already plans are underway to provide a varied History program with a French theme, as the early French explorers left their mark on the Western Australian coastline, but for some inexplicable reason did not claim the land for their Emperor, but left it to the British to plant their flag near Albany in 1826.
Not only will visitors to Perth be informed with a top quality Congress but they will also return home with some memorable experiences in the ‘wild west’.
Geoff Miller
Editor
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