Antique wooden pharmacy display

Le Jardin des Plantes

Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum

By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851

A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.

Grams / Teaspoons in French: Grammes / Cuillères à café

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Brass straight column microscope with weighted base

19th century or early 20th century

In its mahogany case with clamp and swivel mirror

Tube of eye spatulas

Antique pharmacy bottle

“Taxe d'Armement” label: 1939/1940

Antique glass eye - Semi-finished

Genuine antique ocular prosthesis

Color variations and irises of different sizes 

The price is per unit, for one eye only

Toothpaste - Antique apothecary

Porcelain pot with illustrated plastic lid

Antiseptic

Early 20th century - Caution the lid is cracked

Strychnine - Arsenic 

Antique pharmacy bottle from the early 20th century

Green label: POISONOUS SUBSTANCE - CODEX 1908

This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others as it was extremely dangerous and lethal - POISON

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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

BIOLACTYL Ferment Fournier - Early 1900

Cumin Epicea Pill - Pil: Cum Picea

Antique blown glass pharmacy jar 

Apothecary

Salamander - Pharmacy corkscrew in bronze 

XIXth century

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1749

Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates

Box of nascent oxygen and cocaine tablets

From the 1900s to the 1950s it was not uncommon to see cocaine as an ingredient in some lozenges, especially for throat ailments!

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TOYE mint alcohol in Lyon

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary