[The title of pharmacist and its prerogatives]

By creating two access roads to the pharmaceutical profession, the law of Germinal was at the origin of the distinction between pharmacists 1st class ans pharmacists 2nd class. This distinction only died out at the end of XIXth century after having generated and extremely singular type of illegal exercise of pharmacy. The litigation yesteryear, based on the prerogatives attached to the title of pharmacist, found an echo in contemporary jurisprudence. In order to stop the use of the pharmacist's title by graduates working in a para-pharmacy, the legislator restricted the use of the title to those graduates exercising the pharmaceutical art only.