Mercury Chalk – Treatment for Syphilis
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Handwritten label, pen inscription ‘Mercurial Chalk’, neat calligraphy with its thick and thin strokes.
Bottom band ‘TO BE SEPARATED’, instructing the pharmacist to store it in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous poison cabinet.
It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.
Period: Judging by the handwriting, late 19th century
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Mercury Chalk – Treatment for Syphilis
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Handwritten label, inscribed in pen with ‘Mercury Chalk’, in neat calligraphy, with its thick and thin strokes.
Lower band reading ‘TO BE SEPARATED’, instructing the pharmacist to store it exclusively in the cabinet for toxic substances, the infamous poison cabinet.
Mercury, and therefore mercurial chalk, was for a very long time the primary treatment for syphilis; there were no other alternatives. Yet it was completely ineffective... . And it caused the patient untold suffering.
The protocol aimed to reach the toxicity threshold; patients then suffered excruciating side effects: profuse salivation of several litres a day, severe mouth ulcers, tooth loss and necrosis of the jaws. The medical profession at the time interpreted these signs of poisoning as proof that the remedy was ‘expelling’ the disease.
Mercury was still in use by some doctors as late as the 1930s.
It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.
Height of the bottle: 12cm with stopper
Period: Judging by the handwriting, late 19th century
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Phénol Aqueux
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 - POISON
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Lower part of the lower mandible of a horse jaw
Antique model from Maison Auzoux in Paris
Paper-mâché pedagogical model
Model A - 9 months
Museum jar - Wet specimen
Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum
Strophanthus extract - Codex 1908
Early/ mid-20th century pharmacy jar in white earthenware
Beautiful labels: Red POISON label with the famous skull and crossbones and the Poisonous Substances 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.
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.
EMPTY
Le Cachet Rose Flossim - Flossim Pink Tablets
Vintage tin medicine box - Pharmacy - Apothecary
EMPTY
L'art de procréer les sexes à volonté - The art of procreating sexes at will
By Millot - With illustrated plates
Antique book from 1802 (Year X of the Republic) - Third edition
The author explains how to procreate boys and girls, and gives his recipes for treating sterility and malformations...
Antique wooden advertising crate for Gallia / Ch. Gervais infant milk concentrate
Found in Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storage rooms for pharmacists preparing their masterful concoctions from 1900 to 1950.
It was used to store products, glass bottles, etc.
Period: Circa 1947–1955
Orthoforme
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
Silver medal at Paris 1889
Catillon Granules – Strophanthin – Containing Ouabain
POISON
Antique tube of pharmaceutical granules – Apothecary
EMPTY
Arrhénal - Sodium methylarsinate - Arsenic
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE STORED SEPARATELY – CODEX 1908
Indicating to the pharmacist that it must be stored separately from other substances in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous ‘poison cabinet’.
It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.
EMPTY
1937 Codex – French Pharmacopoeia
6th Edition – Decree of 21 February 1937
Volume I only
Aconit leaves - POISON
Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.
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.
Camphorated alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
EMPTY
Antique brown glass bottle with integrated pipette - Ref B
Apothecary - Pharmacy
The pipettes have either been broken or shortened because they are too short
Protective laboratory bell jar - High form with knob in blown glass
Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
Used by the pharmacist to cover precision instruments or isolate preparations undergoing analysis
Solution N°153
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Mercury Chalk – Treatment for Syphilis
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Handwritten label, pen inscription ‘Mercurial Chalk’, neat calligraphy with its thick and thin strokes.
Bottom band ‘TO BE SEPARATED’, instructing the pharmacist to store it in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous poison cabinet.
It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.
Period: Judging by the handwriting, late 19th century
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