Crushed cola nuts
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
Crushed cola nuts
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 is the cola nut – Cola nitida – the original ingredient of the famous Coca-Cola, but in its pure, laboratory form.
Cola was the king of tonic and energy-boosting preparations:
Cola Wine: This was the best-selling preparation over the counter. The chemist would macerate crushed cola nuts in fortified wine (often Malaga or Grenache). It was prescribed for convalescence, fatigue or as an aphrodisiac.
Cola Elixir: A more concentrated, alcohol-based version to ‘boost the strength’ of workers or athletes (widely used by early cyclists!).
Tinctures and Syrups: To relieve headaches or aid digestion.
This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for keeping stock.
Height: 20.5cm - Diameter: 9cm - Weight: 0.73kg
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!
EMPTY
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
Antique medicine box in canvas cardboard
Size L
EMPTY
Collector’s bronze dental articulator
Circa 1920 for the bronze frame
The plaster and resin forming the gums and teeth are modern.
Alum
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar
Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle
in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe
Antique medicine bottle
Apothecary
Le corps de l'Homme
Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves
By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs
No date, circa 1900
Evian grains - Health pills
Antique tin box - Early 20th century
The sweetest laxative
Defects: paint chips, dents, difficult to open
De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)
By M. de Lignac - Volume 3
Anatomy of procreation - 1779
Elixir 173
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Empty
Very Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H27.5cm - 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
Soufre sublimé - Sublimed sulfur
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Gelatine
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
Grindelia Tincture
Antique medicine bottle
Apothecary
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Floroscope
Botanist's microscope
Pocket microscope Late 19th - early 20th century
Warning: Here composed of 2 Stanhope lenses
Crushed cola nuts
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
