1937 Codex – French Pharmacopoeia

6th Edition – Decree of 21 February 1937

Volume I only

Very Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H27.5cm - 19th century

Shouldered apothecary bottle -  Antique pharmacy bottle

Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout

This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling

Antique pharmacy bottle from the 19th century

Balsamum Fioravanti - Balm of Fioravanti

Aconite tincture

Antique pharmacy bottle

Green label: SUBSTANCE A SEPARER - CODEX 1908

This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous in high doses- POISON

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Museum jar - Wet specimen

Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum

The Apothecary’s Little Drawer

Small antique wooden apothecary’s drawer that can be used as a storage box – Trade drawer

Handcrafted using traditional methods, with dovetail joints and a turned wooden handle

Width: 26cm - Length: 15.5cm - Height: 5.5cm 

All the drawers are different, with stains and varying signs of age on each one

Sold empty, without accessories

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Reseptine

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Copper Sulfate

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There are still some beautiful blue crystals inside.

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

Piperazine

Antique amber glass bottle. The cap is missing

Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE STORED SEPARATELY – CODEX 1908

Indicating to the pharmacist that it must be stored separately from other substances in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous ‘poison cabinet’.

It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.

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Pérubore

Antique cardboard medicine box

Empty

Stiassnie Microscope

Lacquered Brass Precision Microscope – M. Stiassnie, Paris, c. 1905/1908

In its mahogany case – Serial Number: 11765

Research microscope configuration with 3 objectives (including a 1/12 oil immersion objective), micrometric stage and Abbe condenser.

A rare collector’s item combining mechanical precision and Parisian scientific prestige.

Nux Vomica Tincture – Strychnine

Antique amber glass bottle

Red ‘POISON’ label

Indicating to the pharmacist that it must be stored separately from other substances in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous ‘poison cabinet’.

It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.

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19th century Herbalist's or Pharmacy crystal jar

Iris 

Specimen jar in blown glass - Inverted apothecary jar - Seed vase

Size L

A vintage laboratory or conservatory container designed for the display and preservation of biological or botanical specimens

BYLA - Antique Pharmacy bottle in amber glass