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.
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
Cloves - Clous de girofle
Antique pharmacy bottle - End of XIXth century
Blown glass
Elixir 173
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Empty
Antique drum microscope
With its wooden case containing 1 brass clamp and 2 preparation slides
XIXth century - inscription under the case dated 7 or 8 May 1853
Grams / Teaspoons in French: Grammes / Cuillères à café
Antique medicine bottle
Apothecary
Pocket microscope
Floroscope - Insectoscope in brass
1850's - 1930's
Nitrate d'Argent
Antique glass dropper in white glass - Content: 30ml
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Antique jar for wet specimen storage
Size S
Antique brass and cast-iron rack-and-pinion microscope in wooden case
Late 19th century - Early 20th century
Orthoforme
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
Silver medal at Paris 1889
Alcool camphré
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
empty - The plug is stuck
Museum jar - Wet specimen
Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum
Antique brown glass bottle with integrated pipette - Ref B
Apothecary - Pharmacy
The pipettes have either been broken or shortened because they are too short
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 Boule de Nancy is sold individually in a small antique drugstore box
Unavailable today
Anatomie de L'Homme - circa 1845
Volume 4 Atlas: Apparatus of nutrition - Angelology - Organs of circulation and respiration
Followed by his Atlas in black and white
By Dr. Bourgery and illustrator Jacob
English Litharge - POISON - Lead oxide
Nineteenth-century medicine bottle with beautiful black and gold label
Blown glass
