Antipyrina Knorr

Named after its German discoverer: Ludwig Knorr

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century

Antique sodium chloride infusion bulb 

500cm3

in its original box - Still full

Antique pharmacy jar: Sodium bicarbonate and Gold Flower tablets

Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century

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

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

EMPTY

Central Pharmacy of the Civil Hospitals of Paris

Antique pharmacy bottle

Apothecary

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

Stiassnie Microscope

Lacquered Brass Precision Microscope – M. Stiassnie, Paris, c. 1905/1908

In its mahogany case – Serial Number: 11765

Research microscope configuration with 3 objectives (including a 1/12 oil immersion objective), micrometric stage and Abbe condenser.

A rare collector’s item combining mechanical precision and Parisian scientific prestige.

Cumin Epicea Pill - Pil: Cum Picea

Antique blown glass pharmacy jar 

Apothecary

Teinture de Cantharides - POISON

Lytta vesicatoria - Spanish fly

Antique blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Early 20th century - Blown glass.

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1750

Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates

Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples

Universal dictionnary of Simple Drugs

By Nicolas Lemery

An antique illustrated pharmacopoeia from 1727 - A Dutch pirated edition

Polished bone cannula - New vintage stock - In its reusable box

Vintage medical device designed to remove pinworms

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Antique 19th century pharmacy bottle

Radix althaeae Off - Marshmallow

Dry sodium iodide

Antique pharmacy bottle - drugstore - apothecary

Herbalist baluster pot - Reissue