[The role plaid by the port of Rouen in the trade of drugs and medicines with America].

Henry the second, king of France, limited the entrance of drugs coming by sea to two French ports, Rouen and Marseilles. Apothecaries of Rouen were in charge of sifting these drugs. For that activity, a sifter helped them. Apothecaries did not limit their activities to receiving drugs from overseas but did also the shipment of medicines, prepared in Rouen, to be sailed in American islands i.e. Haiti or St Kitts. These medicines were convoyed to the other side of the Ocean by surgeons working on boats. Rouen proved to be a place for exchanges of drugs from both sides of the Ocean.