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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Cremor tartari sol - Cream of tartar
Potassium bitartrate
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century
Potassium Cyanide and Iron
Also known as yellow potassium prussiate
Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle
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De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)
By M. de Lignac - Volume 3
Anatomy of procreation - 1779
A avaler aux repas To be taken with meals (as far as can be made out from the torn label)
Antique pharmacy bottle
Torn label
Antique medicine box in canvas cardboard
Size L
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Soufre sublimé - Sublimed sulfur
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Calcium hypophosphite
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE STORED SEPARATELY – CODEX 1908
Handwritten label, pen inscription, neat calligraphy, with its thick and thin strokes.
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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Antique bezoar - Antipoison - Antidote
Once sold by the apothecary, bezoar, also known as gallstone, was reputed to have the same anti-poison properties as the legendary unicorn's horn, hence its excessively high price, also due to its great rarity.
An important piece in a cabinet of curiosities
Sold alone - Without stand, sold separately
Aconite tincture
Antique pharmacy bottle
Green label: SUBSTANCE A SEPARER - CODEX 1908
This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous in high doses- POISON
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Anatomie de L'Homme - 1831
Anatomy of Man
Volume 2 with its black and white Atlas - 99 lithography
By Dr Bourgery and the illustrator Jacob
Cèdre - Cedarwood Oil
Antique pharmacy bottle
There is some product left, but the stopper is stuck
The writing has faded, but in oblique light one can make out CEDRE
70° alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
70° alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
Central Pharmacy of the Civil Hospitals of Paris
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary
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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