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

Incense

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There are still some product inside.

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

Antique wooden advertising crate for Gallia / Ch. Gervais infant milk concentrate

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 1947–1955

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

Painted papier-mâché anatomical model of the brain

Produced by Établissements Auzoux

Model No. 12 from the 1874 catalogue

Dismantlable, numbered model, used for medical teaching.

A rare item in excellent working condition

This is a 1:1 scale model of the brain, sold separately at the time as a demonstration model; it is not a brain that was found inside anatomical manikins.

Dropper No. xx05

Antique pharmacy bottle

He's lost his rubber duck

EMPTY

Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles 

In its original cardboard box

1939/1940

New Old Stock

Carbonate de Potasse

Antique pharmacy bottle

Early 20th century (circa 1910 - 1920)

EMPTY

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe

For intra-laryngeal injections.

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

Rock Candy

Antique Apothecary Bottle of Rock Candy – Coopération Pharmaceutique Française (circa 1930–1940)

It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had remained untouched on the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar served as a medical analysis laboratory and as a laboratory for the pharmacy's compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.

It still contains large crystals of rock candy (Saccharum candi), perfectly preserved.

Phenacetin

Antique pharmacy bottle

Phenacetin is one of the first synthetic antalgic and antipyretic (anti-fever) from the chemical industry, very widespread in pharmacies from the end of the 19th century until the second half of the 20th century.

EMPTY - The cap is blocked and does not open

Gardénal - Phenobarbital - Barbiturates

Phényléthylmalonylurée

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.

EMPTY

Phénol Aqueux

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 - POISON

EMPTY

Aqua Calris - Hot water

Antique pharmacy jar 

Apothecary