Boule de Nancy - Genuine Mars Vulnerary Ball - Steel Ball

This iron-containing ball was once considered a miracle cure for many ailments and injuries.

The Boule de Nancy is sold individually in a small antique drugstore box

Unavailable today

Gaïacol liquide

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 in high doses

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Iron & Soda Pyrophosphate

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Pair of ebonite medical cannulas in their original cardboard box

Circa 1920–1930 

Original stock from that period

Antique medicine box in canvas cardboard 

Size L

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Collector’s bronze dental articulator

Circa 1920 for the bronze frame

The plaster and resin forming the gums and teeth are modern. 

Laboratory pestle in chiseled metal and apothecary hard stone

Possibly an agate or jade

Dating: Belle Époque (Circa 1890 - 1910)

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

Nux Vomica Tincture – Strychnine

Antique amber glass bottle

Red ‘POISON’ label

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.

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Antique Guyon bladder syringe in bakelite

Beginning of XXth century

Central Pharmacy of the Civil Hospitals of Paris

Antique pharmacy bottle

Apothecary

Human jaws in porcelain mounted on a blackened wooden base

Anatomical dental model for dentists

19th century

Cremor tartari sol - Cream of tartar

Potassium bitartrate

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century

70° alcohol

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Late 19th century - 1885-1894

Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris

non-functional

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.

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