Boule de Nancy - Genuine Mars Vulnerary Ball - Steel Ball

This iron-containing ball was once considered a miracle cure for many ailments and injuries.

The Boule de Nancy is sold individually in a small antique drugstore box

Unavailable today

Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments - From a pharmacy or herbalist's cabinet

4 compartments 

Ref A - 39.5x50cm

Can be used as a storage box

Weight: 4.1kg !

Lower part of the lower mandible of a horse jaw

Antique model from Maison Auzoux in Paris

Paper-mâché pedagogical model

Model B - 1 year

Armand Vaast nasal spray - Oil vaporizer - Antique remedy

In its box

Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.

Copper Sulfate

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There are still some beautiful blue crystals inside.

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

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.

BYLA - Antique Pharmacy bottle in amber glass

Reseptine

Antique pharmacy bottle

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

Herbalist's or Pharmacist's jar

Antique blank label of the XVIIIth century

Crushed cola nuts

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

Pair of ebonite medical cannulas in their original cardboard box

Circa 1920–1930 

Original stock from that period

Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Blown glass

Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe

For intra-laryngeal injections.

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

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.

EMPTY

Collodion élastique - Elastic collodion

Antique pharmacy bottle

This product was used in the 19th century as a liquid plaster: a solution of ether and powdered cotton which, once applied to the skin, left a flexible, waterproof protective film.

EMPTY