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Opium extract pills - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Opium extract pills - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Opium extract pills - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Opium extract pills - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Opium extract pills - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Opium extract pills - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle
  • Opium extract pills - POISON cabinet - Antique pharmacy bottle

Opium extract pills - POISON - Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - EMPTY - The Poison Cabinet

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Opium extract pills

Antique pharmacy bottle.

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.

It comes from an old cellar-laboratory in a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not moved since the late 1950s on the shelves. The cellar had served as a laboratory for medical analyses and a laboratory for magistral preparations of the pharmacy from 1900 until around 1950.

Dating: Early 20th century

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Opium extract pills

Antique pharmacy bottle.

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.

This bottle initially contained "Opium Extract Pills at 1 centigram", prepared by the famous Central Pharmacy of France, located at 21, Rue des Nonnains d'Hyères in Paris. 

In the early twentieth century, opium extract was a pillar of pharmacopoeia.

Administered in the form of strictly dosed pills, it served mainly as a powerful analgesic to calm acute pain, as a major sedative to soothe the nervous system, and as a radical treatment against severe intestinal conditions such as diarrhea.

If its therapeutic virtues were unavoidable, its border with the poison was tiny: a too high dose caused a fatal respiratory depression, and its prolonged use led to a destructive dependence: opiomania.

The pharmacist’s handwritten annotations in black ink on the label recall the rigorous control that surrounded its delivery.

It comes from an old cellar-laboratory in a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not moved since the late 1950s on the shelves. The cellar had served as a laboratory for medical analyses and a laboratory for magistral preparations of the pharmacy from 1900 until around 1950.

Height of the bottle: 11cm with cap - Diameter: 4cm

Dating: Early 20th century

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