English Litharge - POISON - Lead oxide
Nineteenth-century medicine bottle with beautiful black and gold label
Blown glass
English Litharge - POISON - Lead oxide
Nineteenth-century chemist's bottle with its beautiful black and gold paper label stuck to the inside of the bottle. Look at the illustrations around the label, the snake and mortar, the retort, the instruments.
Litharge is one of the natural mineral forms of lead oxide.
It was the main ingredient used in apothecaries and pharmacies to make plasters, a kind of solid ointment used to hold dressings in place, heal minor wounds, relieve joint or muscle pain, dry oozing wounds and promote healing.
Its highly toxic properties have been known for a very long time: the great apothecary Pomet wrote about it in his 1694 book: : Histoire Générale des Drogues: ‘Litarge is a poison, as many authors have remarked, which is not very difficult to believe, since experience and reason show us that our litarges are nothing but lead mixed with copper filth and waste’.
In blown glass, the trace of the cane's pontil remains under the bottle.
Stopper in sheet metal
Height 22.5cm with stopper Diameter: 7.5cm
There is still a little product in the bottom of the jar
The bottle has been cleaned on the outside but not on the inside to avoid damaging the inner paper label. So there is still some dirt, stains etc on the glass inside.
Antique drum microscope
With its wooden case containing 1 brass clamp
XIXth century
Stamp of the French Arms and Cycles Factory - Saint-Étienne
Antique glass dropper in white glass - 30ml
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Heart-shaped stopper
Antique brown glass bottle
Huile camphrée
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Antique pharmacy jar: Sambucus nigra (Flowers) - Black Elder
Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century
Antique box of scalpels - Surgery from Collin Manufacturer
Late 19th/early 20th century
11 instruments
Manuel d'Anatomie descriptive du corps humain - Atlas
Anatomical Atlas - Manual of Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Body
In quarto
By Dr Cloquet - 1831 - IN COLOUR - Volume III only
Atlas consisting of 172 lithographed plates, most in colour
Binding very damaged, the leather has been torn from the boards, the first few leaves are fragile, even loose, but the rest is in good condition, the plates are very beautiful. see photos.
Attention this is Volume 2 of the Atlas, there are no plates from Volume 1 of the Atlas. The title pages at the beginning of the book are missing.
Poudre Gentiane N°1
Antique pharmacy bottle - End of XIXth century
Blown glass
Grindelia Tincture
Antique medicine bottle
Apothecary
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case
Around 1900
Antique medical instrument from manufacturer GENTILE in Paris
Hypodermic Pravaz syringe - 19th century
Metal and glass syringe in it's damaged case
not functional
The case is damaged, the hinge is detached, so the case is in two parts.
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
Septichrome
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Dr Zizine's entero-bandage
Antique remedy
Cylindrical metal box
EMPTY
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
English Litharge - POISON - Lead oxide
Nineteenth-century medicine bottle with beautiful black and gold label
Blown glass
