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

Label: Eau de Chaux Médicinale

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.

Pyridoxine hydrochloride - Vitamin B6

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Grindelia Tincture

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Hypophosphite de Manganèse

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

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

Non-renewable 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.

Horseradish syrup

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

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

Formalin 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.

An antique absinthe topette (decanter)

4 Beaded Topette

Incense

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There are still some product inside.

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

Antique surgical board

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

1937 Codex – French Pharmacopoeia

6th Edition – Decree of 21 February 1937

Volume I only

Piperazine

Antique amber glass bottle. The cap is missing

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

Antique glass laboratory funnel - Size L

An antique absinthe topette (decanter)

6 Beaded Topette

Residue in the bottom of the carafe