| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Jonathan Simon. Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777–1809. (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. vi, 189. $89.95.

Jonathan Simon has a bone to pick with the way traditional historians of science have characterized the chemical revolution, and he is right. The substitution of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's oxygen-based theory for older approaches transformed the earlier activity that Simon centrally locates with the art of pharmacy. By following only one dimension of this revolution to its modern (late nineteenth-century) outcome, historians of chemistry have avoided considering how it seriously affected the profession of pharmacists. This short book seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the unintended consequences Lavoisier's revolution had on the profession of druggists.

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