Dropper No. xx05

Antique pharmacy bottle

He's lost his rubber duck

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Dropper No. 242.743

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Berthet - Pharmacie de la Rotonde

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Sodium tartrate – Soda lye

Antique pharmacy bottle.

That’s what I managed to make out from the almost faded labels. The bottle was therefore reused, as was often the case in pharmacies.

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Kermès pur

Antique pharmacy bottle

Kermes is a compound of antimony sulphide whose toxicity is extremely similar to that of arsenic.

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Reseptine

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Sonéryl - Butobarbital - Barbiturates

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Drops No. 234,625

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Hamamelis fluid extract – Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

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A avaler aux repas To be taken with meals (as far as can be made out from the torn label)

Antique pharmacy bottle

Torn label

Cèdre - Cedarwood Oil

Antique pharmacy bottle

There is some product left, but the stopper is stuck

The writing has faded, but in oblique light one can make out CEDRE

Nux Vomica Tincture – Strychnine

Antique amber glass bottle

Red ‘POISON’ label

Indicating to the pharmacist that it must be stored separately from other substances in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous ‘poison cabinet’.

It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.

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