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.

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Late 19th century - 1885-1894

Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris

non-functional

Antique ampoule for hypodermic injection 

Histogénol - (circa 1900)

Sparteine sulphate

Used as a tonic for nervous syndromes at the very beginning of the 20th century, sparteine was also used to facilitate morphine withdrawal.

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Some product left inside

Alcool fin dénaturé

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

EMPTY

Herbalist's or Pharmacist's jar

Antique blank label of the XVIIIth century

Boule de Nancy - Genuine Mars Vulnerary Ball - Steel Ball

This iron-containing ball was once considered a miracle cure for many ailments and injuries.

The Boule de Nancy is sold individually in a small antique drugstore box

Unavailable today

Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Blown glass

Strychnine - Arsenic 

Antique pharmacy bottle from the early 20th century

Green label: POISONOUS SUBSTANCE - CODEX 1908

This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others as it was extremely dangerous and lethal - POISON

EMPTY

Cream tube against the head cold

Dry sodium iodide

Antique pharmacy bottle - drugstore - apothecary

Elixir 173

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Empty

Cobalt blue glass pharmacy jar - Apothecary - Wide neck - H26cm - 19th

Apothecary jar with wide opening. Antique pharmacy bottle

Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout

This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling

Trioxyméthylène

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Mercurochrome

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9