title: [The intervention of the Royal College of Medicine in Nancy in the regulation of pharmaceutical activity].
abstract: Created in 1752 the Royal College of Medicine in Nancy constituted an institution with extended powers, particularly in sanitary policy and pharmaceutical activity. After explaining the rules of the College, the paper describes with examples its participation to the examinations of pharmacy pupils and their sustaining of "Conclusions de pharmacie et de chymie", to the delivery of drugs and to the fight against charlatanry and prohibited activity of pharmacy. From its creating to its disparition in 1793 by order of the government, the Royal College of Medicine worked remarkably, and the rules worked up during the forty years of its life appear to be of a great modernity.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Labrude
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D033161:Government Regulation; D000077406:History of Pharmacy; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*