Benelux - Cercle Benelux D'his-toire De La Pharmacie, Kring Voor De Geschiedenis Van De Pharmacie In Benelux

摘要

In 2012 the Kring launched its own website www. kringbenelux.eu, but of course other usual activities also took place. The first of the two yearly congresses was held in the spring of 2012 in Rolduc, an old abbey in the south of the Netherlands at the border with Germany. Part of this abbey is still in use, but the largest part of the old buildings is used as a hotel/congress center. During this weekend a variety of subjects was brought to the attention of about 40 attendants, starting with a story about the beginning of international pharmaceutical congresses, before the start of the regular congresses organized by the F.I.P. The next was about monasteries and their influence on pharmacy about thousand years ago. This interesting lecture by the president of the Kring was a perfect introduction for the next item, a guided tour through the old buildings of the abbey and the ab-batial church. On the second day attention was focused on the colonial history of the Netherlands, as it took us back to the times of de V.O.C. (Dutch United East India Company) and the way this company took care of the medicines for its personnel working in Ceylon. The day (and the congress) ended with a lecture, very appropriate for the surroundings, about monastery medicine and especially about bloodletting and purging.