Antique pharmacy jar: Asa-foetida (Gum resin) / Asafetida
Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century
Asa-foetida (Gum resin) / Asafetida also called food of the devil
Antique pharmacy or herbalist jar in blown glass from the XIXth century
Beautiful painted label with frame
Glass blown with the mouth, it remains the trace of the pontil of the cane below.
Gilded stopper in sheet metal - Very faded label
Height 24cm approximately with stopper Diameter: 10.5cm
Asafetida is a gum-resin used as vegetable drug and as spice. It is extracted from the root of a kind of giant fennel. The gum resin has a strong, pungent odor reminiscent of garlic, onion, rotten egg or gaslight, which is why it is called fetid!
There are still roots in the jar.
There is a shock on the sheet metal cap.
Boldo leaf fluid extract
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Herbalist's or Pharmacist's jar
Antique blank label of the XVIIIth century
Pilules Basques
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
A Treatise on Surgery
By Dr Reclus and Dr Duplay
Antique illustrated book from 1890
Volume 1
Glycérine iodée
Antique white glass pharmacy bottle - Content: 30ml
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
Clef de Garengeot - Dental key - German key
Marked WAHL Nancy
In use from the 19th century to the 1930s
Antique pharmacy jar: Lignum Quillayae Saponaria - Panama wood - 19th century
Bulb for hypodermic injection - Caffeine (circa 1920)
THERAPLIX
Arséniate de Fer
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Antique bezoar - Antipoison - Antidote
Once sold by the apothecary, bezoar, also known as gallstone, was reputed to have the same anti-poison properties as the legendary unicorn's horn, hence its excessively high price, also due to its great rarity.
An important piece in a cabinet of curiosities
Sold alone - Without stand, sold separately
Antique drum microscope
With its wooden case containing 1 brass clamp and 4 preparation slides
Antique and large drum microscope
In it's mahogany wooden box
For botanist, entomologist
This is a larger model than those usually found on the market
Hypodermic Pravaz syringe - 19th century
Glass syringe and celluloid
not functional
Rare military folding amputation saw - 18th century inspired model, late 19th century German manufacture
Late 19th century German reinterpretation of a pre-existing British model from 1780
Witness to a transition between two eras of military surgery
Antique pharmacy jar: Asa-foetida (Gum resin) / Asafetida
Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century
