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
Myrrh
Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar. 19th-century mouth-blown glass
It comes from the old cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s!
There is still some product left inside
This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling.
Myrrh was one of the key ingredients in the Elixir of Life produced in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pharmacists would use pieces of myrrh, which they would macerate with aloe, saffron and rhubarb. It was the panacea of the time for ‘purifying the blood’. It was an antiseptic and stimulant
Height: 24cm - Diameter: 10cm
Orthoforme
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
Silver medal at Paris 1889
Red chalk drawing- Anatomical drawing
Anatomical study
Drawn by Eugène de Montchoisy in Saint-Brieuc in November 1840
These are not reproductions but original period drawings in red chalk.
You are purchasing one plate, not the entire set of plates
Antique 19th century pharmacy bottle
Radix althaeae Off - Marshmallow
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Antique ampoule for hypodermic injection
Histogénol - (circa 1900)
Essence de ...
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Arthritose
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary
Sodium formate
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
There is still some product left inside
Mercurochrome
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
19th century amputation saw
No maker's mark
Accident on the blade
Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu
Anthropology - End of the XIXth century
20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé
Evian grains - Health pills
Antique tin box - Early 20th century
The sweetest laxative
Defects: paint chips, dents, difficult to open
Antique pharmacy jar: Sodium bicarbonate and Gold Flower tablets
Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century
Antique pharmacy jar: Lignum Quillayae Saponaria - Panama wood - 19th century
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
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
