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Capuchin powder - Antique pharmacy bottle - 19th century in blown glass

€55.00

Poudre de Capucins - Capuchin powder

Nineteenth-century medicine bottle with beautiful black and gold label

Blown glass

Description

Poudre de Capucins - Capuchin powder

A 19th-century pharmacy bottle with a beautiful black and gold paper label glued to the inside.

Cevadilla comes from a Central American hellebore, Veratrum sabadilla.

The fruits of the plant are ground into a powder, the famous Capuchin powder, which can be used to treat parasites such as scabies.

A preparation containing this powder was used to treat Napoleon I's eczema.

Made of blown glass, there is still a trace of the cane's pontil under the bottle.

Sheet metal stopper

Height 22.5cm with stopper Diameter: 7.5cm