Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case
Late 19th century - 1885-1894
Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris
non-functional
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case - Antique medical instrument
Late 19th century - 1885-1894
By MATHIEU, manufacturers of surgical instruments in Paris.
Dated between 1885, when the company moved to 113 Boulevard St Germain under the management of the founder's son, Raoul, and 1894, when the company name changed with the arrival of his brother.
This instrument was used to evacuate liquids, notably for pleurisy, an inflammation of the pleura, the membrane surrounding the lungs, which often contains liquid in the pleural cavity.
It could also be used to evacuate urine from a retained bladder, or gas from an intestine strangled by a hernia. But it could also be used to inject liquid.
(Source: conservatoire du patrimoine hospitalier de Rennes).
The set is complete, but the rubber tubes have not survived the ages; the rubber has hardened and breaks into small pieces if handled. The paper under the box is falling apart and coming loose.
Please note: The felt has faded and is no longer bright purple: see photos.
Includes:
-A steel pump with two spigots at the end.
-A hollow metal rod with a double conduit branching into two branches, each fitted with a tap.
-Trocars of different gauges, cannulas and blunt punches.
-1 glass tube containing wire for needle cleaning is located in the housing beneath the trocars.
Case dimensions: 27.5 x 12 x 5.5 cm: in good condition, lined inside with purple velvet.
MATHIEU marking on interior felt.
Box sheathed in black grained leather with heat-stamped fillets on top. Push-button lock. Typical of the casket production of the 1870s/1895s.
non-functional
Iode Bi-Sublimé - Bi-Sublimated Iodine
Antique 19th-century blown-glass pharmacy jar
EMPTY
Eau de Botot - Tooth-cleansing Elixir
CODEX 1884
Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Biphosphate de Chaux
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)
various manufacturers
Cobalt blue glass pharmacy jar - Apothecary - Wide neck - H26cm - 19th
Apothecary jar with wide opening. Antique pharmacy bottle
Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout
This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard
Non-renewable label
The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.
Protective laboratory bell jar - High form with knob in blown glass
Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
Used by the pharmacist to cover precision instruments or isolate preparations undergoing analysis
Ebonite cannula tip
Tips for enema or medical irrigation cannulas. New Old Stock
Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940
Arséniate de Soude
Antique pharmacy 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.
Date: Begining of 20th century
EMPTY
Antique ampoule for hypodermic injection
Histogénol - (circa 1900)
Crin de Florence - Antique suture thread
Catgut
Natural suture thread obtained from the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori butterfly.
Anatomie de L'Homme - 1831
Anatomy of Man
Volume 2 with its black and white Atlas - 99 lithography
By Dr Bourgery and the illustrator Jacob
Antique pharmacy bottle from the 19th century
Balsamum Fioravanti - Balm of Fioravanti
Antique pharmacy jar: Lignum Quillayae Saponaria
Panama wood - 19th century jar
Puldose Nasal Spray for aqueous solutions - Antique remedy
In its Plastic box
Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case
Late 19th century - 1885-1894
Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris
non-functional
