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 surgical board

From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796

Grindelia Tincture

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Jusquiame 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.

Aqua Piris - Pear water

Antique pharmacy jar 

Apothecary

Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)

THERAPLIX

Toothpaste elixir

Antique pharmacy bottle

Handwritten label with pen

Foxglove leaves - POISON

Antique pharmacy bottle - 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.

Ancient First-aid kit for healing snake bites

antique first-aid kit from the Pharmacie Michel LEGROS

Glass  syringe in its case

Antique Snake Oil Salesmen product! Quack Medicine

Herbalist's or Pharmacist's jar

Antique blank label of the XVIIIth century

Sonéryl - Butobarbital - Barbiturates

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu

Anthropology - End of the XIXth century

20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé

Créosote

Antique pharmacy bottle

Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE SEPARATED - CODEX 1908

This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous in high doses

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1937 Codex – French Pharmacopoeia

6th Edition – Decree of 21 February 1937

Volume I only

Antique and large drum microscope

In it's mahogany wooden box

For botanist, entomologist

This is a larger model than those usually found on the market