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Pierre Saumande, « Organisation des secours aux noyés dans le département de la Haute-Vienne (fin du XVIIIe siècle - premières décennies du XIXe) », Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie (documents), ID : 10.3406/pharm.1999.5004
Haute-Vienne First Aid Service to drowned people in XVIIIth. Ph.-N. Pia, an apothecary of the Paris City Council, created in 1772 a First- Aid-Service to drowned people. Within 15 years, a hundred people where rescued ; that's why the Government decided to endow each french department with an identical service. The author describes here the Haute-Vienne First Aid Service to drowned people.