
Antique jar for wet specimen storage - Size S
Antique jar for wet specimen storage
Size S
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its felt case
Late 19th century - Early 20th century
With an explanatory leaflet
From Lafay House Manufacturer: Surgical Instruments in Lyon
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its felt case
Late 19th century - Early 20th century
From Lafay House Manufacturer: Surgical Instruments in Lyon
With an explanatory leaflet from the medical book: Petite Chirurgie et Technique Médicale Courante - Editions Masson, 1949.
This instrument was used to evacuate liquids, notably for pleurisy, an inflammation of the pleura, the membrane surrounding the lungs, which often contains liquid in the pleural cavity.
It could also be used to evacuate urine from a retained bladder or gas from an intestine strangled by a hernia.
(Source: conservatoire du patrimoine hospitalier de Rennes).
Rubber and fabric tubes have not survived the ages.
Includes:
-A steel pump with two end caps.
-A hollow metal rod with a double conduit branching into two branches, each fitted with a tap.
-Several trocars of different gauges, cannulas and foam punches.
Case dimensions: 27.5 x 12 x 5.5 cm: in good condition, case lined with purple velvet inside.
Antique jar for wet specimen storage
Size S
Bulb for hypodermic injection - Caffeine (circa 1920)
THERAPLIX
Tincture of iodine
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Eau Blanche - White Water - POISON
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary
Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae
Antique pharmacy bottle
Blown glass
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
Antique pharmacy glass bottle
Sirop des Vosges Cazé - Pectoral cough syrup
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Antique medicine box in canvas cardboard
Size M
EMPTY
Antique pharmacy jar: Lignum Quillayae Saponaria - Panama wood - 19th century
Mineraline by Dr C. Baud
Antique tin pharmacy box
Powder or talcum powder for children's toiletries
The Anatomy by Heister
Complete with its 14 folding boards at the end of the book
Published in 1735
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
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 Nancy Ball is sold individually, without a jar
Unavailable today
Museum jar - Wet specimen
Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its felt case
Late 19th century - Early 20th century
With an explanatory leaflet
From Lafay House Manufacturer: Surgical Instruments in Lyon