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 Bezoar
Bezoar is a Persian word that protects against poison. According to Arab tradition, this stone was the product of the tears of a deer-goat.
In reality, it is a foreign body, a calcareous concretion resembling an extremely light stone that is most often found in the stomachs of ruminant animals and cannot be digested. An amalgam of fibres, plant debris and licking hairs bound together by resin ingested at the same time as conifer bark. Humans can also sometimes get it.
Once considered a universal antidote against venoms and poisons as early as the 15th century, it was also used as a decorative object by curiosity collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Once sold by apothecaries, bezoars, also known as gallstones, were reputed to have the same anti-poison properties as the legendary unicorn's horn, which explains their extremely high price, also due to their great rarity. Legend has it that a Moorish king of Andalusia gave a doctor a sumptuous palace in Cordoba in exchange for a single bezoar.
In the event of poisoning, the bezoar was grated and powdered in wine to be swallowed.
Also effective against melancholy, the great princely families of Europe, notably the Habsburgs, who were prone to melancholy, collected them, transforming them into objets d'art, mounted on pedestals of gold and jewels.
Bezoars were important objects in cabinets of curiosity and in natural-history collections.
Simply possessing it warded off bad luck, and even the smallest stones could be found mounted in rings or pendants.
Provenance: Former collection. Origin: West Africa, circa 1950, from a return trip.
Dimensions: This is a not entirely round ball measuring approximately 4.5x4cm
The Bezoar is sold alone
You can also buy the base seen in the photos by typing bézoard in the search box
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Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip
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EMPTY
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In it's mahogany wooden box
For botanist, entomologist
This is a larger model than those usually found on the market
Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphorated ethereal oil (circa 1920)
THERAPLIX
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Chromolithography
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
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Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip
EMPTY
Grindelia Tincture
Antique medicine bottle
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The Apothecary’s Little Drawer
Small antique wooden apothecary’s drawer that can be used as a storage box – Trade drawer
To be diverted on the shelf or niche for your curiosities
Handcrafted using traditional methods, with dovetail joints and a turned wooden handle
Width: 26cm - Length: 15.5cm - Height: 5.5cm
All the drawers are different, with stains and varying signs of age on each one
Sold empty, without accessories
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Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1749
Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates
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Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Antique pharmacy bottle from the 19th century
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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
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Iris
70° alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
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
