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[The inventive genius of pharmacists: invention patents 1836-1852]
[Article in French]
The author calls attention to a documentation source neglected by French historians of pharmacy: invention patents. He shows how to take advantage of these documents, provides an example of their interest and analyzes globally the corpus of legally-approved patents by pharmacists from 1836 to 1852.
PMID: 11640312 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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