Cèdre - Cedarwood Oil

Antique pharmacy bottle

There is some product left, but the stopper is stuck

The writing has faded, but in oblique light one can make out CEDRE

Boule de Nancy - Genuine Mars Vulnerary Ball - Steel Ball

This iron-containing ball was once considered a miracle cure for many ailments and injuries.

The Boule de Nancy is sold individually in a small antique drugstore box

Unavailable today

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

Copper Sulfate

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There are still some beautiful blue crystals inside.

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

Hypophosphite de Manganèse

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Antique brown glass bottle

Huile camphrée

Apothecary - Pharmacy

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

Nux Vomica Tincture – Strychnine

Antique amber glass bottle

Red ‘POISON’ label

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

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...

Laboratory pestle in chiseled metal and apothecary hard stone

Possibly an agate or jade

Dating: Belle Époque (Circa 1890 - 1910)

Notebook – Order book from the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris

Writing on the first four pages only; the rest is blank

Antique storage box for glass eyes in blue felt

50 compartments

Interior in blue felt and silk

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

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

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1749

Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates

Angelica Archangelica

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century, early 20th century