Armand Vaast nasal spray - Oil vaporizer - Antique remedy
In its box
Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.
Armand Vaast nasal spray - Oil vaporizer - Antique remedy
The spray consists of a rubber bulb topped with a glass bulb with a cork stopper. Inside is a curved glass tube.
This device, marketed by Armand Vaast, based on Rue de l'Odéon in Paris, was hugely successful with the medical profession.
It was used to spray oils and medicinal liquids in mist form, used in otorhinolaryngology, employed in the treatment of respiratory conditions, colds, nose, throat, larynx and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.
First half of the 20th century.
Comes with its cylindrical box in good condition.
In good condition, the rubber is still flexible!
Here is an advertisement from the period:
Height of diffuser: 14cm
Height of box: 16.5cm
Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae
Antique pharmacy bottle
Blown glass
Notebook – Order book from the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris
Writing on the first four pages only; the rest is blank
Antique pharmacy jar
Liquid Peptone
Raw meat product very fashionable in the first half of the 20th century.
Pravaz hypodermic injection syringe
Early 20th century
Non-functional
SOLD ALONE WITHOUT CASE
Solution N°153
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
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
Foxglove leaves - POISON
Antique pharmacy bottle - 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.
Laboratory pestle in chiseled metal and apothecary hard stone
Possibly an agate or jade
Dating: Belle Époque (Circa 1890 - 1910)
Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe
For intra-laryngeal injections.
Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940
Créosote
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
Berthet - Pharmacie de la Rotonde
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Antique pharmacy jar: Illicium verum (Fruit) / Star anise
Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century
Dropper No. xx05
Antique pharmacy bottle
He's lost his rubber duck
EMPTY
Mineraline by Dr C. Baud
Antique tin pharmacy box
Powder or talcum powder for children's toiletries
Antique brown glass bottle
Huile camphrée
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Armand Vaast nasal spray - Oil vaporizer - Antique remedy
In its box
Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.
