Central Pharmacy of the Civil Hospitals of Paris

Antique pharmacy bottle

Apothecary

Crin de Florence - Antique suture thread

Catgut

Natural suture thread obtained from the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori butterfly.

A avaler aux repas To be taken with meals (as far as can be made out from the torn label)

Antique pharmacy bottle

Torn label

Gaïacol liquide

Antique pharmacy bottle

Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE SEPARATED - CODEX 1908

This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous in high doses

EMPTY

Aqua Calris - Hot water

Antique pharmacy jar 

Apothecary

Puldose Nasal Spray for aqueous solutions - Antique remedy

In its Plastic box

Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.

Racine de Ratanhia - Para Rhatany

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Berthet - Pharmacie de la Rotonde

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Antique glass dropper in white glass 

Apothecary - Pharmacy

Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments - From a pharmacy or herbalist's cabinet

4 compartments 

Ref A - 39.5x50cm

Can be used as a storage box

Weight: 4.1kg !

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.

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Antique Laundry blue box - Helvetia Blue from Talissot & Chevalier in Dôle and Geneva 

Period: 1890-1905

Box containing 6 gold-plated “coins” made of blue wash, resembling the iconography of Swiss coins and medals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Beautiful blue and gold illustration on the box.

Your box will be sealed: never opened in 120 years

Bi-Carbonate de Soude - Sodium bicarbonate

Antique cardboard pharmacy box

Beautiful typography typical of the Belle Époque: circa 1910-1920

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1750

Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates

Grindelia Tincture

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Anatomical chart by Paulet and Sarazin

From the Traité d'anatomie topographique (Treatise on topographical anatomy)

Published in 1867-1870

Chromolithography

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set