Box of Cocaine Dragees - Gosiérine DALLOZ - Art Nouveau

From the 1910-1920s with a typical Art Nouveau illustration inspired by Alphonse Mucha

It is advisable to suck 6 to 8 dragees a day and 2 to 4 dragees for children to let melt gently in the mouth.

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Box of cocaine lozenges

Menthol - Cocaïno - Boraté by the Pharmacist Holler in Maubeuge

Magnificent lid typical of Art Nouveau: 1900-1910

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Metal box of breath mints with cocaine

Box of Dr BENGUE Dragees

1920's

It is recommended to suck 8 to 10 lozenges per day, allowing them to melt in the mouth... 

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Antique glass for Absinthe

Ref B

The twists on the glass are used to measure out the absinthe liquor and then pour the water over the sugar on the absinthe spoon on the glass to soften the bitterness of the drink.

Phenacetin

Antique pharmacy bottle

Phenacetin is one of the first synthetic antalgic and antipyretic (anti-fever) from the chemical industry, very widespread in pharmacies from the end of the 19th century until the second half of the 20th century.

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Iodine dye

Antique pharmacy bottle

With the inscription Teinture d'Iode molded in glass

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Teinture d'Arnica

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Rock Candy

Antique Apothecary Bottle of Rock Candy – Coopération Pharmaceutique Française (circa 1930–1940)

It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had remained untouched on the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar served as a medical analysis laboratory and as a laboratory for the pharmacy's compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.

It still contains large crystals of rock candy (Saccharum candi), perfectly preserved.

Huile de ricin

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Huile camphrée

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Iodine dye

Antique pharmacy bottle

With the inscription Teinture d'Iode molded in glass

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Collodion

Used as a liquid dressing

Antique pharmacy bottle

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