title: [Onguent du Bec or king's drugs?].
abstract: In this XVIIIth century end, between the official drugs of the apothecaries and the remedies of "Empiriques", a common point : their price which makes them dissuasive for the poor people. Since 1710, the royal capacity sets up in the parishes a distribution at moderate price of the drugs for neediest : "les boîtes d'Helvétius" (medicine chest) will be the first steps of a free medical care.
authors.affiliation: Société d'histoire et patrimoine pharmaceutiques de Basse-Normandie.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huni
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lisowski
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D006078:Government Programs / Q000266:history*; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D008511:Medicine; D012068:Religion and Medicine