Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)

various manufacturers

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

Myrrh

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There is still some product left inside

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

An antique absinthe topette (decanter)

6 Beaded Topette

Residue in the bottom of the carafe

Cremor tartari sol - Cream of tartar

Potassium bitartrate

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century

Dropper No. xx05

Antique pharmacy bottle

He's lost his rubber duck

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Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip

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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.

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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.

Buckthorns syrup

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

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

Mercury Chalk – Treatment for Syphilis

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

Handwritten label, pen inscription ‘Mercurial Chalk’, neat calligraphy with its thick and thin strokes.

Bottom band ‘TO BE SEPARATED’, instructing the pharmacist to store it 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.

Period: Judging by the handwriting, late 19th century

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De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)

By M. de Lignac - Volume 3 

Anatomy of procreation - 1779

Mastic of Chios

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There is still some product left inside

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1761

Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1750

Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates