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Zinc sulphate - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Zinc sulphate - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Zinc sulphate - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Zinc sulphate - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Zinc sulphate - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Zinc sulphate - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Zinc sulphate - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle

Pharmaceutical zinc sulphate - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - EMPTY - The Poison Cabinet

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Pharmaceutical zinc sulphate

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.

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Description

Pharmaceutical zinc sulphate

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’.

Zinc sulphate is a powerful emetic (it causes violent vomiting) and can be corrosive to the digestive mucosa in high doses.

It was used either:

External Use (main): As an antiseptic and astringent, particularly in eye drops (in very dilute doses) or to treat skin problems and ulcers.

Internal use: Prescribed in minute doses for certain nervous disorders such as epilepsy or, paradoxically, to induce vomiting in cases of poisoning by other substances.

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

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