Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to P Saumande.
Ph.-N. Pia, an apothecary of the Paris City Council, created in 1772 a First-Aid-Service to drowned people. Within 15 years, a hundred people were rescued; that's why the Government decided to endow each french department with an identical service. The author describes here the Haute-Vienne First Aid Service to drowned people.
There have been great change in the practice of pharmacy during the second half of 19th C; the number of chemists has greatly increased; they have had to turn to publicity. Some chemist's have increased in size; the Grande Pharmacie universelle is a good example.
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Measures made in France have showed that gamma radioactivity and indoor radon concentration were more important in country with granitic soil. As long as radon was more particularly admitted to be inducer of broncho-pulmonary cancer by inhalation, epidemiologic inquires were made. The results do not reveal any excess death caused by cancer in these countries selected because of their granitic soil.
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