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

Antique brown glass bottle

Huile camphrée

Apothecary - Pharmacy

Laboratory pestle in chiseled metal and apothecary hard stone

Possibly an agate or jade

Dating: Belle Époque (Circa 1890 - 1910)

Unknown bottle from Coopération Pharmaceutique Française

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Antique surgical board

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

Antique surgical board

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

Antique wooden advertising case for Nestlé concentrated infant milk

Found in Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storage rooms for pharmacists preparing their masterful concoctions from 1900 to 1950.

It was used to store products, glass bottles, etc.

Period: Circa 1910–1930

Potassium Bromide Elixir

Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle

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

Dry sodium iodide

Antique pharmacy bottle - drugstore - apothecary

Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

Is there any bluish residue left inside, and the bottle may have served as an inkwell at one time?

EMPTY

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

Piperazine

Antique amber glass bottle. The cap is missing

Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE STORED SEPARATELY – CODEX 1908

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

Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe

For intra-laryngeal injections.

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Catillon Granules – Strophanthin – Containing Ouabain

POISON

Antique tube of pharmaceutical granules – Apothecary

EMPTY

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