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
Antique pharmacy jar
Liquid Peptone
Raw meat product very fashionable in the first half of the 20th century.
Orthoforme
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Silver medal at Paris 1889
Collector’s bronze dental articulator
Circa 1920 for the bronze frame
The plaster and resin forming the gums and teeth are modern.
De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)
By M. de Lignac - Volume 3
Anatomy of procreation - 1779
Cinnamon Water
Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle
Sonéryl - Butobarbital - Barbiturates
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
An antique absinthe topette (decanter)
4 Beaded Topette
Elixir 173
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Empty
Eau de Cologne du Mont St Michel
Antique BLUE glass pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Ipecacuanha Opiate Powder - Dover's Powder
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
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
Chlorure de magnésium
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
EMPTY
Arrhénal - Sodium methylarsinate - Arsenic
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
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
Anatomical chart by Paulet and Sarazin
From the Traité d'anatomie topographique (Treatise on topographical anatomy)
Published in 1867-1870
Chromolithography
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)
various manufacturers
Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles
In its original cardboard box
1939/1940
New Old Stock
Tincture of Jalap Compound also known as German brandy
A purgative powder is extracted from the Jalap plant.
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
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
