[History of professionalization of modern clinical pharmacist (2): reformation of medical systems before and after the French Revolution].
Paradoxically the medical reformation at the French Revolution is based on two concepts; one was the free medical and pharmaceutical practices without professional licence and another was the nationalistic centralization. The newborn nationalistically centralized institution was applied simultaneously in the field of politics and modern medicine. The physicians of "Société Royale de Médecine" started to investigate the epidemic diseases all over France in 1778. After the French Revolution, it soon developed into a larger public organization that represented the knowledge of medicine and the collegiate mind of the Société shared among the practicioners.