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

EMPTY

Unknown bottle from Coopération Pharmaceutique Française

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

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

Antique wooden advertising case for Mont Blanc - Rumilly condensed milk - Drawer

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. 

This box is no longer just a transport container, it has been adopted as a piece of furniture.

Period: Circa 1920–1940

Packet of Potato Starch

Circa 1920

New old stock

Mastic of Chios

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

Butterfly - Natural History color plate 

Entomology

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

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.

Le Jardin des Plantes

Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum

By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851

A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.

Poudre de réglisse - Licorice powder

Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H28cm - 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

Central Pharmacy of the Civil Hospitals of Paris

Antique pharmacy bottle

Apothecary

Hemlock 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.

Catillon Granules – Strophanthin – Containing Ouabain

POISON

Antique tube of pharmaceutical granules – Apothecary

EMPTY

Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu

Anthropology - End of the XIXth century

20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé

1937 Codex – French Pharmacopoeia

6th Edition – Decree of 21 February 1937

Volume I only