Abelhas ou Zangões: as primeiras normas para o profissional da farmácia do Brasil no início do século XIX

Abstract

This paper aims to present the first results of a research that has been developed in the scope of the doctorate about the institutionalization of pharmacy in Brazil in the 19th century - more specifically between 1808 and 1891, that is, from the first medical and pharmaceutical classes. in surgery schools until the creation of the first Faculty of Pharmacy in Brazilian territory. One of the proposals of this research is to investigate the construction and the regularization of the professional of the graduated and licensed pharmacy, according to the requirements of the time. In this way, this article seeks to analyze what the first laws aimed at pharmacy professionals predicted, and how they would have contributed so that the "true pharmacists" could be identified and differentiated from others who, although producing and selling medicines and, consequently, were part of the scenario of the 19th century carioca pharmacy, were not regulated and, under