Large antique laboratory test tube made of actinic glass (brown glass) - Pharmacy
Its unusual dimensions make it a model with a beautiful presence
Large antique laboratory test tube made of actinic glass (brown glass) - Pharmacy
Period: Early 20th century
Large laboratory test tube made of brown blown glass, called actinic glass.
This actinic glassware was specifically tinted brown throughout to absorb ultraviolet rays and allow the pharmacist to protect and preserve highly photosensitive substances that would degrade in direct light.
The tube has a well-marked flared lip and ends with a round hemispherical bottom.
Its unusual dimensions make it a model of a beautiful presence.
Length: 21cm - Diameter at the entrance: 3.5cm
Comes from a former basement-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles and other utensils had not moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The basement had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy's magisterial preparations from 1900 until around 1950.
Gelatine
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
Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard
Use it with caution label
The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.
Silver nitrate
Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label.
Red POISON label
Signaling to the pharmacist that it is imperative to keep apart the other substances in the cabinet of toxic substances, the famous poison cabinet.
Dating: 19th century
There is still some product inside but the cap is blocked and does not open.
Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles
In its original cardboard box
1939/1940
New Old Stock
Alcool camphrée
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Man and Woman
Anatomy booklet with removable boards
Around 1930's
Anatomie de L'Homme - 1831
Anatomy of Man
Volume 2 with its black and white Atlas - 99 lithography
By Dr Bourgery and the illustrator Jacob
Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard
Poison label - Ref A
The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.
Mercuric cyanide
Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label with golden blue threads
Red POISON label
Signaling to the pharmacist that it is imperative to keep apart the other substances in the cabinet of toxic substances, the famous poison cabinet.
Dating: 19th century
EMPTY
Mastic of Chios
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
De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)
By M. de Lignac - Volume 3
Anatomy of procreation - 1779
Antique bezoar - Antipoison - Antidote
Once sold by the apothecary, bezoar, also known as gallstone, was reputed to have the same anti-poison properties as the legendary unicorn's horn, hence its excessively high price, also due to its great rarity.
An important piece in a cabinet of curiosities
Sold alone - Without stand, sold separately
Chloroform
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th
Lower part of the lower mandible of a horse jaw
Antique model from Maison Auzoux in Paris
Paper-mâché pedagogical model
Model A - 9 months
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1750
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Large antique laboratory test tube made of actinic glass (brown glass) - Pharmacy
Its unusual dimensions make it a model with a beautiful presence
