Nineteenth-century cholera epidemics as a factor in the modernization of pharmacy

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dc.contributor.authorMagowska, Anita
dc.contributor.organizationUniwersytet Medyczny w Poznaniu
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-27T11:19:58Z
dc.date.available2025-02-27T11:19:58Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe paper focuses on the beginnings of pharmacy modernisation, i.e., introducing statistical methods into pharmacotherapy assessment to meet the individual and population’s health needs. The work is based on the 19th-century archival records, medical press, doctoral theses on cholera, pharmacotherapy textbooks, and pharmacopoeias. The study covers 1817-1883, i.e. from the first cholera pandemic to the discovery of the bacterial aetiology of this disease by Robert Koch. In the 19th century, a high toll of death from cholera forced doctors to search for effective and safe anti-choleric drugs. They learned for the first time how the drugs they prescribed affected large populations of patients. Statistics proved that some anti-choleric drugs are deadly harmful and must be withdrawn from medical textbooks, pharmacopoeias and official drug registers. Despite the harmfulness of opium, calomel, and other drugs that were popular in anti-cholera treatment in the 19th century, the content of therapy textbooks remained unchanged until the end of the century. This persistence of harmful drugs in the textbooks and treatment regimens indicated the urgent need for regulatory changes, such as the approval of pharmacopoeias by pharmaceutical societies instead of medical boards.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNarodowe Centrum Nauki (UMO-2021/41/B/HS3/00594).
dc.identifier.citationA. Magowska, Nineteenth-century cholera epidemics as a factor in the modernization of pharmacy, [in:] PROCEEDINGS BOOK of the 46th ISHP CONGRESS 2024, p. 109-115.
dc.identifier.doi10.46793/ISHP46.109M
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/25469
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPharmaceutical Association of Serbia
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodoween
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.sourcePROCEEDINGS BOOK of the 46th ISHP CONGRESS 2024. 46th International Congress for the History of Pharmacy ‘Pharmaceutical Profession and Society: Roots, Development and Lessons for the Future’
dc.subjectcholera epidemicsen
dc.subjectiatrogenic illnessen
dc.subjectcholera treatmenten
dc.subjectiatrogenic mortalityen
dc.subjectcholera hospitalen
dc.subjectharmful drugsen
dc.titleNineteenth-century cholera epidemics as a factor in the modernization of pharmacyen
dc.title.alternativeDziewiętnastowieczne epidemie cholery jako czynnik modernizacji farmacjipl
dc.typeconferencePaper
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
person.identifier.orcidMagowska, Anita [0000-0002-6046-3993]
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