[Comparison of French and American formularies in 1945: multiple discrepancies that come from technical, political and social differences].

At the end of the Second World War, L'Officine from Dorvault, 1945 edition, gives the state of the art situation of drugs in France. At the same date, is published New and Non-Official Remedies in Chicago, IL, USA. Tiffeneau in France publishes an other reference book of Pharmacology in 1947 (6th edition). From the comparison of these books appears a mismatch between the French and US remedies at the end of the war: well developed within USA, antibiotics, anti-allergic drugs and contraceptive products are more or less absent in France. Analysis of the differences appears related to technical and economical reasons but also to politic and social ones.