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Healing of Snake Bites: the rescue kit Michel Legros with leaflet

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First aid kit for the healing of snake bites with leaflet

Made by a pharmacist from Limoges, Michel LEGROS

Beautiful snake illustration on the aluminium box

With instructions - 1900/1920

Description

First-aid kit for snakebite healing

1900-1920 circa

Made by Limoges pharmacist Michel LEGROS.

Aluminum case with beautiful embossed illustration.

The metal box contains 3 ampoules, filled with a herbal product.

In the early 20th century, Limoges pharmacist Michel Legros was a great botanical connoisseur.

He developed a product that healed people bitten by venomous snakes with impressive speed, he claims.

The serum is the same for European vipers or more dangerous snakes like the cobra and also works on insect bites...!

Local hunters, fishermen and farmers flocked to his dispensary to buy the kit.

His kit became famous throughout France and even abroad, particularly in the French colonies, until the 1960s.

A time when the efficacy and safety of the products had to be proven...

Kit contains:

-4 ampoules of orange antivenom

-1 original glass syringe, branded TROUSSE M. LEGROS with its 2 needles in the needle holder

Case dimensions: 8 x 7.5cm 

With vintage instructions leaflet explaining how to inject the antivenom.

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