Ebonite cannula tip

Tips for enema or medical irrigation cannulas. New Old Stock

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Brownbanded bamboo shark 

Naturalized

Chiloscyllium punctatum

Unprotected species - Old taxidermy: visible suture under the belly and on the left side near the mouth

Gargle

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Naturalized Small-spotted catshark

Scyliorhinus canicula

Unprotected species - Old taxidermy: visible suture under the belly and on the left side near the mouth

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

American mint alcohol

Antique pharmacy bottle

Alcool dénaturé - Alcool à brûler

Denatured alcohol - Methylated spirits

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Empty

Veronal - Barbiturates - Diethylmalonylurea

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Label: DANGEROUS

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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Notebook – Order book from the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris

Writing on the first four pages only; the rest is blank

Glycérine pure officinale

Pure pharmaceutical-grade glycerine

Antique BLUE glass pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Pharmaceutical zinc sulphate

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE STORED SEPARATELY – CODEX 1908

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.

EMPTY

An antique absinthe topette (decanter)

6 Beaded Topette

Residue in the bottom of the carafe

Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Blown glass

Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard

To be used with care label

The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.

Infangyl Carlier

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

The box still contains its full, sealed bottle and instructions