IMPACT OF BOOZE AND GUNS. “Alcohol was not the only plant substance altering bodies in France in the years after the Revolution. The circulation of medicinal plants and drugs remained robust. With the abolition of apothecary guilds during the Revolution, the regulation of trade now fell to the profession of pharmacy, newly institutionalised by a group closely allied to Lavoisier, most notably the chemist Antoine François Fourcroy (1755-1809), who had established, along with Lavoisier, the new chemical nomenclature.”
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