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THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE ROMANIAN PHARMACEUTICAL LEGISLATION BETWEEN 1874-1948

MARIA BESCIU, VALENTINA SOROCEANU^*

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It has been noted that the pharmaceutical legislation suffers continuous modifications due to the changes and influences of social life. This article has been written in order to analyze the Pharmacy and Medicine regulations in Romania covering the period 1874-1948, years that are important as reference points, namely the elaboration of the first health law in 1874 and the nationalization made in 1948 in Romania. The laws issued in this period cover numerous guidelines concerning pharmaceutical field. In this paper various aspects from normative acts that refer to pharmaceutical activity in Romania are taken into consideration, namely: the right of ownership of a pharmacy, the pharmacy concession, the operation authorization, the pharmacy staff, disciplinary punishments and a statistic situation issued when a general census of pharmacists was performed in 1941.