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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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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Box of nascent oxygen and cocaine tablets

From the 1900s to the 1950s it was not uncommon to see cocaine as an ingredient in some lozenges, especially for throat ailments!

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Pure Vaseline Box

Antique tin pharmacy box for ointment - Circa 1900

No longer opens - Beautiful patina: see photos

Empty

Brücke achromatic magnifying glass with engraved linear reticle

Portable scientific instrument — 19th century

Used in ophthalmology, surgery, dissection, histology, botany and mineralogy. 

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Late 19th century - 1870-1895

Antique medical instrument 

However, the box comes from the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, as indicated by the inscription on the top of the box, from the Bouillaud ward of the hospital.

non-functional

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Late 19th century - 1885-1894

Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris

non-functional

Syringe for diphtheria serum – Dr Roux method

Wooden box

Label from instrument manufacturer H. Hauptner in Berlin on the box and marking on the large syringe

Elegant Art Nouveau glass vase and bronze candlestick

Made of cast bronze with a patina finish, decorated with naturalistic plant motifs and hand-finished with a file.

Art Nouveau decorative object combining patinated bronze and orange glass in a fluid, asymmetrical plant motif characteristic of the late 19th century.

Circa 1895–1905