A first roundup took place on June 25th 1943, in Clermont-Ferrand, in the hostel of students from Alsace and Lorraine, called La Gallia. An assistant-professor and two Alsatian pharmacy students were arrested and died later on in a concentration camp. Five months later, a great operation was savagely conducted by German army and Gestapo, against the University of Strasbourg, which had moved to Clermont-Ferrand since September 1939. A professor was killed, others wounded or mauled. It was also the case with many students from the various faculties. A hundred and fifty professors and students were sent to concentration camps, two of the pharmacy students from the Clermont University never came back to France. Three of our lady colleagues, who lived through the second roundup (November 25th 1943) give their hitherto unpublished testimonies.

Education, Pharmacy↗

PubMed1998

[Pharmacists in the Resistance in Auvergne].

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France↗

PubMed1997

[A heroine for the Resistance: Anne-Mary, Jeanne Menut at Riom (1914-1944)].

Anne-Mary Lafaye was born on may 16th 1914 just before world war I. Her parents were teachers and helped her to go up one step of the social scale; in 1939 she became a pharmacist. Quite an ordinary life, but another world war came. She married Max Menut, early resistant worker, and she was more and more involved, providing the maquis with bandages and medicines. She had made the choice of her values, and time of abnegation came. She had to hide her identity under the name of Marinette. She sold her pharmacy in Riom, she entrusted her daughter to her mother's care, and she had to take care of wounded fighters. Rapidly she was denounced, arrested, tortured and savagely executed.

France↗

PubMed1996

[This concerns a medical botany course by "M. de Jussieu"].

This course comprises the list of plants likely to cure or alleviate diseases or functional symptoms which are beforehand studied from clinical or physiological point of view. With regard to botany, plants are designated: - either by their French name with sometimes a synonym or a classical Latin name, - or according to the Tournefort or Linné's terminology. It is an interesting truative on eighteenth century medical botany, the professor who dictated this course being Antoine or Bernard de Jussieu.

Botany↗

PubMed1995

[The old pharmacy at the abbey of Orval and its medical herb garden].

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Belgium↗

PubMed1995

[In memory of Bernard Courtois (1777-1838)].

Three unpublished documents (1813-1817) provide precise information on the installation and function of the Paris salt-peter works which Courtois made use of at the time of his discovery of iodine. For the centenary of his communication of this discovery at the Institute, he was honored by Dijon, the city of his birth. However, the author's research did not reveal any portraits of him.

Chemistry, Pharmaceutical↗

PubMed1994