Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

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

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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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Ipecacuanha Opiate Powder - Dover's Powder

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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Square Section Dropper Bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

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

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Berthet - Pharmacie de la Rotonde

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Pyramidon

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar

Gargle

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Antique glass dropper in white glass 

Apothecary - Pharmacy

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 drum microscope for botanist, entomologist

Mirror missing

Late 19th century, early 20th century

Excerpt from Strophanthus MENIER - TINY pot

Early/ mid-20th century pharmacy jar in white earthenware

Beautiful labels: Red POISON label with the famous skull and crossbones and the Poisonous Substances label

Signaling to the pharmacist that it is imperative to keep apart the other substances in the cabinet of toxic substances, the famous poison cabinet.

It comes from an old cellar-laboratory in a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not moved since the late 1950s on the shelves. The cellar had served as a laboratory for medical analyses and a laboratory for magistral preparations of the pharmacy from 1900 until around 1950.

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Glycérine pure officinale

Pure pharmaceutical-grade glycerine

Antique BLUE glass pharmacy bottle

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Huile goménolée

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Antique and large drum microscope

In it's mahogany wooden box

For botanist, entomologist - XIXth century

This is a larger model than those usually found on the market

Packet of Potato Starch

Circa 1920

New old stock

Incense

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There are still some product inside.

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology