Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case
Late 19th century - 1870-1895
Antique medical instrument
However, the box comes from the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, as indicated by the inscription on the top of the box, from the Bouillaud ward of the hospital.
non-functional
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case - Antique medical instrument
Late 19th century - 1870-1895
The name of the instrument manufacturer has faded on the felt.
However, the box comes from the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, as indicated by the inscription on the top of the box, from the Bouillaud ward of the hospital.
The hospital no longer exists, having been demolished around 1935 to make way for the new medical school in Paris.
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).
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.
Case dimensions: 27.5 x 12 x 5.5 cm: in good condition, lined inside with purple velvet.
The words CHARITE and SALLE BOUILLAUD are marked on the top of the box and Aspirateur du Dr Potain on the felt inside.
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
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Hypophosphite de Manganèse
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
70° alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal
Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden
Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans
Fourth edition
Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.
Gardénal - Phenobarbital - Barbiturates
Phényléthylmalonylurée
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Label: DANGEROUS
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.
EMPTY
Sodium Nitrite
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Label: DANGEROUS
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.
EMPTY
Chlorure de magnésium
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
EMPTY
Antique pharmacy jar
Liquid Peptone
Raw meat product very fashionable in the first half of the 20th century.
Pharmaceutical zinc sulphate
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.
EMPTY
Potassium Cyanide and Iron
Also known as yellow potassium prussiate
Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case
Late 19th century - 1885-1894
Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris
non-functional
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.
EMPTY
Antique brown glass bottle
Huile camphrée
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Butterfly - Natural History color plate
Entomology
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Orthoforme
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
Silver medal at Paris 1889
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
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case
Late 19th century - 1870-1895
Antique medical instrument
However, the box comes from the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, as indicated by the inscription on the top of the box, from the Bouillaud ward of the hospital.
non-functional
