[The history of the approval of an anthelminthic syrup by the " Société royale de médicine" at the end of the 18th century].

A dossier in the archives of the Académie nationale de médecine made possible a description of the course of events in obtaining an approval of an anthelmintic syrup by the Société royale de médicine. The pharmacists Lanoix and Macors of Lyon founded a society in 1778 together with Greth, a non pharmacist, with the intention of exploiting in their sole names a syrup which he elaborated. In 1780 they request the Société royale de médicine a privilege for seling the syrup which was refused.

[Comparative study of the medicines used in the fight against plague on the basis of the plague treatises of the Medical Faculty of Paris (1348-1349), of Joannes de Vesalia (after 1454) and of Thomas Montanus (1669)].

The remedies proposed for the prevention and treatment of the plague by the Medical Faculty of Paris and by Joannes de Vesalia are mainly derived from plants and animals apart from some minerals used in medieval medicine. Alchemical preparations, absent in the Compendium, are rarely mentioned by Joannes de Vesalia. About 90% of the simples preconized by the Faculty of Paris are still used as remedies in the tractates of Joannes de Vesalia and Montanus.