Pharmacy at AP-HP from yesterday to today

Name: Pharmacy at AP-HP from yesterday to today
Start: 2023-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Hôpital Bicêtre

The exhibition of the AP-HP Museum «The Pharmacy at the AP-HP from yesterday to today» reveals its exceptional collections dedicated to hospital pharmacy, retracing the historical journey...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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Musée de l'AP-HP / A. Prevost

The exhibition of the AP-HP Museum «La Pharmacie à l'AP-HP d'hier à aujourd'hui» reveals its exceptional collections dedicated to hospital pharmacy, tracing the historical, professional and technical path. From the first apothecary founded at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1495 to the AGEPS (Agence générale des équipements et des produits de santé des hôpitaux de Paris), the exhibition presents the manufacturing methods, storage and distribution of medicines in Paris hospitals. It thus shows the transformation of activity as the profession of pharmacist becomes more professional, as technical innovations and as production and distribution are modernised.

About the location

Hôpital Bicêtre

78 rue du Général-Leclerc 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre

Val-de-Marne
Île-de-France

The origins of Bicêtre date back to the middle of the 13th century, when Louis IX donated an estate on the territory of Gentilly to a colony of Chartreux. Around 1286, Jean de Pontoise, bishop of Winchester, acquired the domain abandoned by the Chartreux and built a feudal keep.
Subsequently, on the site of the feudal castle was destroyed. Louis XIII built a hospital for wounded soldiers.
In 1656, Mazarin decided to attach this hospital to the general hospital created by the King. Bicêtre was assigned to men, vagabonds, old men, destitute of all kinds (in 1668 there were 600 boarders). At the same time, the Bicêtre hospital became a state prison, an insane asylum and a hospice.
In 1823, it was transformed and was called “Hospice de la Vieillesse Hommes” and in 1885, “Hospice de Bicêtre”. Still visible, these old buildings, parallel to each other, erect their brick gables in front of the functional hospital rebuilt in the years 1970-1971.
The Bicêtre Hospital Centre continues to develop