Solution N°153

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Metal box of breath mints with cocaine

Box of pastilles Menthol-Borate-Cocaïne-Stovaïne from CPF Laboratories

1920's

EMPTY

Antique pharmacy jar

Liquid Peptone

Raw meat product very fashionable in the first half of the 20th century.

Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu

Anthropology - End of the XIXth century

20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé

Crushed cola nuts

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There is still some product left inside

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

Armand Vaast nasal spray - Oil vaporizer - Antique remedy

In its box

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

Cobalt blue glass pharmacy jar - Apothecary - Wide neck - H26cm - 19th

Apothecary jar with wide opening. Antique pharmacy bottle

Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout

This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling

Antique pharmacy jar: Sodium bicarbonate and Gold Flower tablets

Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century

Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles 

In its original cardboard box

1939/1940

New Old Stock

Catillon Granules – Strophanthin – Containing Ouabain

POISON

Antique tube of pharmaceutical granules – Apothecary

EMPTY

Camphorated alcohol

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

EMPTY

Veronal - Barbiturates - Diethylmalonylurea

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

Label: DANGEROUS

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

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Late 19th century - 1870-1895

Antique medical instrument 

However, the box comes from the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, as indicated by the inscription on the top of the box, from the Bouillaud ward of the hospital.

non-functional

Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe

For intra-laryngeal injections.

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1750

Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates

Rue Powder

Rue was an abortive plant

Antique pharmacy bottle - Poison - Toxic