Packet of Potato Starch
Circa 1920
New old stock
Packet of Potato Starch
Circa 1920
Original vintage stock
This 60-gram packet of potato starch bears witness to an era when this product was not merely a culinary ingredient, but a staple of the pharmaceutical compendium. In pharmacies, starch served as a neutral binder for compounded powders, a base for making tablets, or a soothing and absorbent powder for skin irritations.
Never used, still sealed.
A visual testament to the history of pharmacy and commerce in the early 20th century,
It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The vials 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.
Height: 6cm
Cinnamon Water
Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle
Pravaz hypodermic injection syringe
Early 20th century
Non-functional
SOLD ALONE WITHOUT CASE
Alum
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar
Buckthorns syrup
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
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
Crushed cola nuts
Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.
19th-century mouth-blown glass
There is still some product left inside
A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology
Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal
Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden
Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans
Fourth edition
Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.
Herbalist's or Pharmacist's jar
Antique blank label of the XVIIIth century
Soufre sublimé - Sublimed sulfur
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Cumin Epicea Pill - Pil: Cum Picea
Antique blown glass pharmacy jar
Apothecary
Fluorure de sodium - sodium fluoride
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Violet de Méthyle
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
Notebook – Order book from the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris
Writing on the first four pages only; the rest is blank
Sonéryl - Butobarbital - Barbiturates
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Aconite tincture
Antique pharmacy bottle
Green label: SUBSTANCE A SEPARER - CODEX 1908
This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous in high doses- POISON
EMPTY
Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae
Antique pharmacy bottle
Blown glass
Packet of Potato Starch
Circa 1920
New old stock
