[Radium in pharmacy! Second Part: Pharmaceutical used of radium during the inter-war years]

Rev Hist Pharm (Paris). 2012 May;60(373):73-86.
[Article in French]

Abstract

This article presents the raise of patent medicines composed of radium during the inter-war years. Because of a lack of regulation, this production was getting anarchistic. It is studied throught many documents from pharmaceutical laboratories wich are kept by the Curie' museum. Those laboratories would obtain certificates from Curie Institute, to show them in their advertisements.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • France
  • History, 20th Century
  • Humans
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / chemistry*
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / history*
  • Radium / analysis*
  • Radium / history

Substances

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations
  • Radium