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
Fluorure de sodium - sodium fluoride
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Tincture of Jalap Compound also known as German brandy
A purgative powder is extracted from the Jalap plant.
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Butterfly - Natural History color plate
Entomology
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Antique storage box for glass eyes in blue felt
50 compartments
Interior in blue felt and silk
Potassium Bromide Elixir
Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle
Red chalk drawing- Anatomical drawing
Anatomical study
Drawn by Eugène de Montchoisy in Saint-Brieuc in November 1840
These are not reproductions but original period drawings in red chalk.
You are purchasing one plate, not the entire set of plates
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1761
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Toothpaste - Antique apothecary
Porcelain pot with illustrated plastic lid
Antiseptic
Early 20th century - Caution the lid is cracked
Antique brass and cast-iron rack-and-pinion microscope in wooden case
Late 19th century - Early 20th century
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
Floroscope
Botanist's microscope
Pocket microscope Late 19th - early 20th century
Warning: Here composed of 2 Stanhope lenses
Sparteine sulphate
Used as a tonic for nervous syndromes at the very beginning of the 20th century, sparteine was also used to facilitate morphine withdrawal.
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Some product left inside
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.
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case
Late 19th century - 1885-1894
Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris
non-functional
Le Jardin des Plantes
Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum
By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851
A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.
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
