[The pharmacist and deputy Henri Schmidt, the law voted in 1913 and said «for three years¼ and the position of mobilized pharmacists at the beginning of First World War].

Henri Schmidt was, with his fellow the senator Paul Cazeneuve, the main defender of the mention of pharmacists and pharmacy students in the articles of the law voted in 1913 for the recruitment of the army. After the description of their interventions to attain this end, and a short biography of these two politicians, the paper explains the activities of the pharmaceutical parliamentary group, during the early years of the war, in view to obtain the admittance in the medical corps of the pharmacists and students unprovided of rank, for the new creation of «auxiliary pharmacists¼, for the appointment as soon as possible of the maximum number of colleagues at this rank, and then for their promotion to the rank of «aide-major¼, resolution that appeared more difficult to obtain.