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With the war's outbreak the American colonies were forced to improvise, as the British navy's effective paper blockade along America's coast stopped most of the trade in medical supplies.  The infant American medical and pharmaceutical professions can be justifiably proud of their inventiveness, for, although there was some shortage of specific drugs, on the whole, American physicians and pharmacists came up with substitutes to fill these gaps.