Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1750

Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates

Portable autopsy kit from the mid-19th century

Maison Charrière in Paris, circa 1845–1870

Mahogany case for autopsy and dissection

Small portable mahogany case containing a set of autopsy instruments: hook hammer, bone chisel, enterotome scissors, probes, hooks and suture needles. Used by forensic scientists and anatomists for opening and examining bodies.

Charrière, a major 19th-century Parisian manufacturer, was a pioneer in the design of high-precision surgical and anatomical instruments.

Mahogany and polished steel: 23 × 11 cm

Please note: crack in the wood under the case

A beautiful object, very rare to find

L'art de procréer les sexes à volonté - The art of procreating sexes at will 

By Millot - With illustrated plates 

Antique book from 1802 (Year X of the Republic) - Third edition

The author explains how to procreate boys and girls, and gives his recipes for treating sterility and malformations...

Antique surgical board

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

An antique absinthe topette (decanter)

4 Beaded Topette

Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.

Acide Chlorhydrique

Antique pharmacy bottle

Handwritten text on a label from the Berthier Pharmacy, located at the Rotonde Marceau in Paris. The label shows the telephone number 02-76 with the Wagram area code, which dates the bottle to between 1912—when area codes were first introduced—and the 1930s or 1940s.

American mint alcohol

Antique pharmacy bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle from the 19th century

Balsamum Fioravanti - Balm of Fioravanti

Tube of eye spatulas

Antique pharmacy bottle

“Taxe d'Armement” label: 1939/1940

Mercurochrome

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9

Strychnine - Arsenic 

Antique pharmacy bottle from the early 20th century

Green label: POISONOUS SUBSTANCE - CODEX 1908

This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others as it was extremely dangerous and lethal - POISON

EMPTY

BYLA - Antique Pharmacy bottle in amber glass

Pravaz hypodermic injection syringe

Early 20th century

Non-functional

SOLD ALONE WITHOUT CASE

Antique brass and cast-iron rack-and-pinion microscope in wooden case

Late 19th century - Early 20th century