Ancient First-aid kit for healing snake bites
antique first-aid kit from the Pharmacie Michel LEGROS
Glass syringe in its case
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Ancient First-aid kit for healing snake bites
At the beginning of the 20th century, Michel Legros pharmacist in Limoges was a great connoisseur of botany.
He has developed a product that cures with impressive speed people bitten by a venomous snake, according to his words...
Hunters, fishermen and farmers of the region rush to his shop to get this kit.
The ampoule contained a solution of chromic anhydride, or chromium trioxide.
Legros’s instructions stated that his solution was "oxygenating" and that it allowed "to return to the blood, deoxygenated by the venom, the vital qualities of arterial blood". It was scientifically completely wrong. Chromium trioxide is a powerful chemical oxidant, but it does not provide breathable oxygen to cells and does not neutralize the enzymatic and destructive complexes of viper venom.
On the other hand, chromium trioxide is an extremely aggressive chemical compound, which is today classified as carcinogenic and highly corrosive.
In reality, injecting this product caused local tissue necrosis, the destruction of flesh.
His pencil case will become famous throughout France and even abroad until the 1960s.
Period from which it was necessary to prove the effectiveness and safety of the products... In reality, this antivenom had no effect on snake bites!
Burgundy percaline case, inside in felt.
The kit contains:
-1 Old glass syringe with its 2 needles
- 1 dose of serum, which is not the original one; it had to be replaced over time by an ampoule of Coramine. For the moment, this bulb had a real effect; it wasn’t an antivenom, but the product had a real effect on the heart to help it hold its own while it waited to go to a hospital. Indeed, Coramine is a backup stimulant. It did not attack the venom, but it forced the heart to beat and the lungs to breathe to prevent the injured from falling into a coma or dying of cardiac arrest due to the shock of the bite.
At the very beginning of the 20th century, because later the pencil cases would be made of metal
Dimensions of the case: 4.5 x 8cm Height: 2.5cm
Dimensions of the syringe: Length 7cm without needle
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Box of cocaine lozenges
Menthol - Cocaïno - Boraté by the Pharmacist Holler in Maubeuge
Magnificent lid typical of Art Nouveau: 1900-1910
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Specimen jar in blown glass - Inverted apothecary jar - Seed vase
Size L
A vintage laboratory or conservatory container designed for the display and preservation of biological or botanical specimens
Infangyl Carlier
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
The box still contains its full, sealed bottle and instructions
Butterfly - Natural History color plate
Entomology
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Dropper bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Is there any bluish residue left inside, and the bottle may have served as an inkwell at one time?
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Dropper Bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
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Antique pharmacy jar: Lignum Quillayae Saponaria
Panama wood - 19th century jar
Pharmaceutical zinc sulphate
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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Dropper Bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
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Antique and large drum microscope
In it's mahogany wooden box
For botanist, entomologist - XIXth century
This is a larger model than those usually found on the market
Museum jar - Wet specimen
Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum
Antique glass bell jar
Apothecary / Laboratory
Thin glass, light green in color and darker at the top, with bubbles
Potassium Bromide Elixir
Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle
Cremor tartari sol - Cream of tartar
Potassium bitartrate
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century
Aconit leaves - POISON
Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.
19th-century mouth-blown glass
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.
A fascinating testimony to pharmacology
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.
Ancient First-aid kit for healing snake bites
antique first-aid kit from the Pharmacie Michel LEGROS
Glass syringe in its case
Antique Snake Oil Salesmen product! Quack Medicine
