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

By M. de Lignac - Volume 3 

Anatomy of procreation - 1779

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

Antique surgical board

From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796

Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)

various manufacturers

Antique pharmacy bottle from the 19th century

Balsamum Fioravanti - Balm of Fioravanti

Toothpaste elixir

Antique pharmacy bottle

Handwritten label with pen

Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu

Anthropology - End of the XIXth century

20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé

Herbalist baluster pot - Reissue

Racine de Ratanhia - Para Rhatany

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Dropper Bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

EMPTY

Poudre de réglisse - Licorice powder

Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H28cm - 19th century

Shouldered apothecary bottle -  Antique pharmacy bottle

Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout

This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling

Specimen jar in blown glass - Inverted apothecary jar - Seed vase

Size S

A vintage laboratory or conservatory container designed for the display and preservation of biological or botanical specimens

Piperazine

Antique amber glass bottle. The cap is missing

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

Datura powder

Antique earthenware pot

Intended for the exclusive use of pharmacists for making magistral preparations, the jar displays the regulatory labels "TOXIC" and the red banner "POISON".

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

Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard

Poison label - Ref A

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.

Hemlock leaves - POISON

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

Red POISON 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.

A fascinating testimony to pharmacology

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.