Orthoforme

Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire

Silver medal at Paris 1889

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

Poison label - Ref A

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.

Polished bone cannula - New vintage stock - In its reusable box

Vintage medical device designed to remove pinworms

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Cremor tartari sol - Cream of tartar

Potassium bitartrate

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century

Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal

Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden

Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans

Fourth edition

Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.

American mint alcohol

Antique pharmacy bottle

Angelica Archangelica

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century, early 20th century

Antique pharmacy bottle from the 19th century

Balsamum Fioravanti - Balm of Fioravanti

Sparteine sulphate

Used as a tonic for nervous syndromes at the very beginning of the 20th century, sparteine was also used to facilitate morphine withdrawal.

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Some product left inside

Cream tube against the head cold

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

Jusquiame - Henbane

Antique pharmacy 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.

Date: Begining of 20th century

EMPTY

Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé

From Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des organes des sens de l'homme avec leur mode de préparation

Published in 1866

Lithography

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

Mercury Chalk – Treatment for Syphilis

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Handwritten label, pen inscription ‘Mercurial Chalk’, neat calligraphy with its thick and thin strokes.

Bottom band ‘TO BE SEPARATED’, instructing the pharmacist to store it 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.

Period: Judging by the handwriting, late 19th century

EMPTY

Puldose Nasal Spray for aqueous solutions - Antique remedy

In its Plastic box

Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.

Violet de Méthyle

Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire