Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal

Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden

Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans

Fourth edition

Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.

Antique box of scalpels - Surgery from Collin Manufacturer

Late 19th/early 20th century

11 instruments

TOYE mint alcohol in Lyon

Antique pharmacy bottle

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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

Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)

THERAPLIX

Tincture of Jalap Compound also known as German brandy

A purgative powder is extracted from the Jalap plant.

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Antique Guyon bladder syringe in bakelite

Beginning of XXth century

Crin de Florence - Antique suture thread

Catgut

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

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Herbalist's or Pharmacist's jar

Antique blank label of the XVIIIth century

Teinture de Cantharides - POISON

Lytta vesicatoria - Spanish fly

Antique blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Early 20th century - Blown glass.

Alcool fin dénaturé

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

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Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé

From Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des organes des sens de l'homme avec leur mode de préparation

Published in 1866

Lithography

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

English Litharge - POISON - Lead oxide

Nineteenth-century medicine bottle with beautiful black and gold label

Blown glass

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.

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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