Makers of Homeoapthic medicines

From the late 18th century to the 1840s, in the early days of homeopathy, the homeopathic physician himself would produce his medicines, because few dispensary pharmacists knew the specific methods for the preparation of these medicines.

Starting in the 1850s, for legal, scientific and social reasons, pharmacies specializing in homeopathy began to appear. The roles of the practitioners were clearly defined: the physician prescribed the medicine and the pharmacist prepared the medicine.
From then on, homeopathic pharmacists would set the rules for production and the rules for preparation of the medicine in works such as 'Le codex des médicaments homéopathiques' [The Codex of Homeopathic Medicines] by pharmacist Georges Weber in 1854, 'La pharmacopée homéopathique française' [The French Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia] of H. Ecalle, R. Delpech and A. Peurier in 1898... At the same time, they conceived of new devices intended to automate the production process.


In the dynamics of industrialization in the early 20th century, physicians, concerned with guaranteeing the standardization of medicines and their reliability, would stimulate the creation of specialized structures for preparing these medicines. Specialized pharmacies were then transformed into laboratories. Better equipped, more productive, and supplying a standardized product, the laboratories were not only capable of providing the pharmacies with generic medicines, but also of creating and distributing proprietary medicines in their own name. Thus, the LHF, LHM, Boiron, Delpech, Dolisos, and Lehning laboratories were created in France. The Schwabe laboratory also appeared in Germany, as did the Nelson laboratory in Great-Britain, the Unda laboratories in Belgium USM in Holland, Boericke and Tafel, and USM in the United States, etc.

Source:http://www.boiron.com/en/htm/06_homeo_histoire/aventure_medi....