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Sodium Nitrite - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Sodium Nitrite - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Sodium Nitrite - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Sodium Nitrite - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Sodium Nitrite - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Sodium Nitrite - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Sodium Nitrite - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Sodium Nitrite - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Sodium Nitrite - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle

Sodium Nitrite - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - EMPTY - The Poison Cabinet

€35.00

Sodium Nitrite

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Label: DANGEROUS

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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Sodium Nitrite

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Label: DANGEROUS

Indicating to the pharmacist that it must be stored separately from other substances in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous ‘poison cabinet’.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was used in medicine to regulate blood pressure (as an antihypertensive) and to relieve angina attacks, before being replaced by more stable and less toxic derivatives.

It was also long used as an emergency antidote for cyanide poisoning.

Classified as toxic and dangerous. In high doses, it causes acute methaemoglobinaemia: the blood can no longer carry oxygen, leading to severe cyanosis and cardiovascular failure.

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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Anatomical model of the human larynx - Dr Auzoux model -...

Antique anatomical model of the larynx and trachea made of painted papier-mâché.

Produced by Établissements Auzoux and manually dated 1938.

Model can be dismantled lengthwise, numbered, used for medical teaching.

Please note: one removable side piece is missing. The model remains stable and highly decorative. Authentic piece.

Handwritten inscription from the period: Larynx - Auzoux à St-Aubin-d’Écrosville Eure 1938

Placed in a metal base, it can be easily removed to hold it in your hand.

Price €480.00