Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie
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Rev Hist Pharm (Paris) · Feb 2011
Historical Article[The end of the theriac in modern medicine in the sixteenth to nineteenth century].
Theriaca, after the Greco-Roman antiquity, survived centuries with some continuity. The formula used during the 17th century, inherited from the tradition of Hippocrates and Galen is closed to what it was centuries earlier, despite the difficulties of supply of raw materials. ⋯ In France, the last public preparation of the Theriaca was performed in 1798. Official pharmacopoeias of the 19th century (from 1818 to 1884) will all retain a formulation of Theriaca, where, according to tradition, dozens of ingredients are mixed in terms of unproven effectiveness that will lead to the withdrawal of the final preparation at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Theriaca passes controversial drug status to that of ancient and obsolete myth.
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Rev Hist Pharm (Paris) · Jul 2010
Historical Article[The pharmacist Ludovic Dardenne and his chocolate hundred-years-old].
Launched in 1910, the brand "Yo-Yo" made the fame of the chocolate factory of the pharmacist Ludovic Dardenne for Luchon. It was then replaced by a "chocolate of regime" still marketed nowadays. The authors present three elements susceptible to inform this transformation: the first presentation of the chocolate Yo-Yo, its patent of manufacturing such as it was registred in 1911, and two typographic patches praising the merits of the chocolate of regime in the 60's.
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Rev Hist Pharm (Paris) · Apr 2010
Historical Article[The opiate pharmacopeia in France from its origins to the 19th century].
For thousands of years, opium was the main remedy against pain. Its analgesic properties have been known since antiquity, as well as its stupefacient, narcotic and addictive effects. A countless number of opiate galenical preparations had already been formulated by the beginning of our era. ⋯ Seguin, but above ail the German pharmacist Sertürner (in 1805 and 1817) isolated morphine. Organic chemists took over from the analysts, and morphine derivatives were obtained by hemi-synthesis (heroin), and then central analgesics, or opioids, by total synthesis. Opium is no longer seen as the only supreme remedy for painful disorders, and its galenic forms have gradually disappeared from pharmacopeias.
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Rev Hist Pharm (Paris) · Apr 2010
Biography Historical Article[A Lumière's pharmacist: Marius Sestier (1861-1928)].
During the year 1896 Marius Sestier, the young pharmacist from the french city Lyon, becomes cinematograph operator for the Lumière brothers. Sent in Australia to use the recent invention, he must come back in France after only one year in the southern hemisphere. ⋯ He's employed as the responsible pharmacist of the new society created by Auguste Lumière: "la Société des Produits chimiques spéciaux "Brevets Lumière". This essay relates Sestier's biography and, concurrently, several drugs, foundation and development of those laboratories wich are well known as "Laboratoires Lumière".
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Rev Hist Pharm (Paris) · May 2008
Historical Article[The Lance-parfum (perfume-squirter), a medical equipment which became a carnival article].
The perfume-squirter was a glass or metal tube. It contained parfumed ethyl chloride and was very famous as carnival article. Therefore, ethyl chloride in tubes existed before, and was used by surgeons for local anesthetics. The authors study patents to prove this relationship and analyse letters written before the First World War by the Swiss perfumer Givaudan and a French physician, Dr Besançon.