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
Polished bone cannula – New vintage stock – In its original box
A vintage medical device designed to remove intestinal worms , a very common type of small intestinal parasite.
This small cannula was screwed onto the end of a rubber bulb or an injection syringe. It was used to administer purgative or vermifuge enemas locally.
Carefully crafted: the upper end features a lateral diffusion eyelet, whilst the base has a clean internal thread, turned by a lathe operator, to screw perfectly onto the rubber bulbs of the period.
A sign of the pharmacist’s pragmatism and the early days of wartime restrictions, this box is a pure product of pharmacy recycling.
Indeed, the label from the Ch. Réha Pharmacy (17, Faubourg des Ancêtres, Belfort) has been cut out and hand-pasted onto an older label.
The lid bears the handwritten inscription in black ink from the period: ‘Canule Curoxyure’.
It still has its original price label stuck to the side of the box, stating ‘armament tax included’.
This inscription serves as a chronological marker: the armament tax was introduced in France by the decree-law of 21 April 1939 to finance the nation’s rearmament and was abolished in 1940 at the start of the Occupation. This cannula was therefore sold between May 1939 and sometime in 1940.
It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles and other items 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.
Dimensions of the box: 5x3cm
Sodium formate
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
There is still some product left inside
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Essence of star anise
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Toothpaste - Antique apothecary
Porcelain pot with illustrated plastic lid
Antiseptic
Early 20th century - Caution the lid is cracked
Buckthorns syrup
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Large antique laboratory test tube made of actinic glass (brown glass) - Pharmacy
Its unusual dimensions make it a model with a beautiful presence
Orthoforme
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
Silver medal at Paris 1889
Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé
From Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des organes des sens de l'homme avec leur mode de préparation
Published in 1866
Lithography
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle
in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe
Antique medicine bottle
Apothecary
Grindelia Tincture
Antique medicine bottle
Apothecary
Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H27.5cm - 19th century
Shouldered apothecary bottle - Antique pharmacy bottle
Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout
This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling
Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)
various manufacturers
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
Catillon Granules – Strophanthin – Containing Ouabain
POISON
Antique tube of pharmaceutical granules – Apothecary
EMPTY
Salamander - Pharmacy corkscrew in bronze
XIXth century
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
