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Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
  • Cardibain - Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Cardibain - With Ouabain - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

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Cardibain - With Ouabain - POISON

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

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Cardibain - With Ouabain - POISON

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

At the end of the 19th century, the chemist Léon Arnaud received some poison-coated arrows from Somalia from a famous traveller of the time, Bénédict-Henry-Révoil. One of them was coated with waba, a lightning poison obtained from the Ouabaïo plant.

In 1888, he isolated the element responsible for the effects of the poison, which he named ouabaïne, a violent cardiac poison used therapeutically for a time as a cardiotonic, but because of its toxicity, it has since been replaced by digitoxin.

The original box contains the EMPTY bottle inside.

Box height: 8 cm

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