Sparteine sulphate

Used as a tonic for nervous syndromes at the very beginning of the 20th century, sparteine was also used to facilitate morphine withdrawal.

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Some product left inside

Antique glass bell jar 

Apothecary / Laboratory

Thin glass, light green in color and darker at the top, with bubbles 

Teinture de Cantharides - POISON

Lytta vesicatoria - Spanish fly

Antique blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Early 20th century - Blown glass.

Jusquiame leaves - POISON

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

Red POISON label

Signaling to the pharmacist that it is imperative to keep apart the other substances in the cabinet of toxic substances, the famous poison cabinet.

A fascinating testimony to pharmacology

It comes from an old cellar-laboratory in a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not moved since the late 1950s on the shelves. The cellar had served as a laboratory for medical analyses and a laboratory for magistral preparations of the pharmacy from 1900 until around 1950.

Grindelia Tincture

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Antique surgical board

From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796

Large antique laboratory test tube made of actinic glass (brown glass) - Pharmacy

Its unusual dimensions make it a model with a beautiful presence

Antique drum microscope for botanist, entomologist

Mirror missing

Late 19th century, early 20th century

An antique absinthe topette (decanter)

10 Beaded Topette

Specimen jar in blown glass - Inverted apothecary jar - Seed vase

Size S

A vintage laboratory or conservatory container designed for the display and preservation of biological or botanical specimens

Very Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H27.5cm - 19th century

Shouldered apothecary bottle -  Antique pharmacy bottle

Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout

This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling

Museum jar - Wet specimen

Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum

Protective laboratory bell jar - High form with knob in blown glass

Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary

Used by the pharmacist to cover precision instruments or isolate preparations undergoing analysis

Human jaws in porcelain mounted on a blackened wooden base

Anatomical dental model for dentists

19th century

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

Aqua Calris - Hot water

Antique pharmacy jar 

Apothecary