Dry sodium iodide

Antique pharmacy bottle - drugstore - apothecary

Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)

THERAPLIX

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

Antique glass bell jar 

Apothecary / Laboratory

Thin glass, light green in color and darker at the top, with bubbles 

Alcool dénaturé - Alcool à brûler

Denatured alcohol - Methylated spirits

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Empty

Sodium tartrate – Soda lye

Antique pharmacy bottle.

That’s what I managed to make out from the almost faded labels. The bottle was therefore reused, as was often the case in pharmacies.

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Small antique engraved glass bell

I believe these are antique glass pieces that were originally intended to be placed on a stand.

Repurpose them as small bells to showcase your small objects, such as a small skull, as shown here.

Sold individually

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Kopé Opium Paste for Coughs

Antique tin medicine box - Pharmacy - Apothecary

Medical Confectionery: Circa 1920 

Paradoxes of the antique pharmacy, where notorious poisons were presented in the guise of harmless sweets.

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Antique Guyon bladder syringe in bakelite

Beginning of XXth century

Collector’s bronze dental articulator

Circa 1920 for the bronze frame

The plaster and resin forming the gums and teeth are modern. 

Arrhénal - Sodium methylarsinate - Arsenic

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

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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Antique wooden advertising crate for Gallia / Ch. Gervais infant milk concentrate

Found in Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storage rooms for pharmacists preparing their masterful concoctions from 1900 to 1950.

It was used to store products, glass bottles, etc.

Period: Circa 1947–1955

Catillon Granules – Strophanthin – Containing Ouabain

POISON

Antique tube of pharmaceutical granules – Apothecary

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Human jaws in porcelain mounted on a blackened wooden base

Anatomical dental model for dentists

19th century

Horseradish syrup

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Armand Vaast nasal spray - Oil vaporizer - Antique remedy

In its box

Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.