Crocodile - Pharmacy corkscrew in cast iron
XIXth century
Antique pharmacy corkscrew in the shape of a crocodile.
Cast iron - The crocodile's teeth and eyes have been painted white. Beautiful patina.
From the 19th century or early 20th century.
The corkscrew allowed the pharmacist to compress and soften the corks before inserting them in the bottles containing the remedy.
The corkscrew was often fixed in the apothecary's or pharmacist's shop by screwing it to the counter.
Here what is uncommon is that it is in the form of a salamander but one finds it very often in the form of a crocodile, another name of the corkscrew.
Length: 28.5cm
It weighs 2.2Kg !
Before these objects appear, the apothecary or the pharmacist chewed himself the corks to insert them in the bottles... From where the term chewing-cork...
Metal box of breath mints with cocaine.
Pastilles SIMON - Menthol Cocaïno Boraté
1930's average
EMPTY
Antique glass dropper in white glass
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Heart-shaped stopper
19th century amputation saw
No maker's mark
Accident on the blade
Lower part of the lower mandible of a horse jaw
Antique model from Maison Auzoux in Paris
Paper-mâché pedagogical model
Model A - 9 months
Potassium Bromide Elixir
Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle
Antique pharmacy jar: Lignum Quillayae Saponaria - Panama wood - 19th century
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Lithinés du Docteur GUSTIN
Antique tin medicine box
Empty
Pastilles themogène - Le Mortier Enflammé
Themogenic tablets - The Flaming Mortar
Antique tin medicine box
Empty
Antique medicine box in canvas cardboard
Size M
EMPTY
Antique pharmacy display jar
Blown red glass
Bearded dragon - Pogona vitticeps - Bearded agama
Museum jar - Wet specimen
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.
Bulb for hypodermic injection - Caffeine (circa 1920)
THERAPLIX
Floroscope
Botanist's microscope
Pocket microscope Late 19th - early 20th century
Warning: the small lens on one side is missing - the large lens remains
Violet de Méthyle
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
Crocodile - Pharmacy corkscrew in cast iron
XIXth century
