Mercury Chalk – Treatment for Syphilis

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Handwritten label, pen inscription ‘Mercurial Chalk’, neat calligraphy with its thick and thin strokes.

Bottom band ‘TO BE SEPARATED’, instructing the pharmacist to store it 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.

Period: Judging by the handwriting, late 19th century

EMPTY

Horseradish syrup

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Anatomical chart by Paulet and Sarazin

From the Traité d'anatomie topographique (Treatise on topographical anatomy)

Published in 1867-1870

Chromolithography

You buy 1 plate, not the whole set

De l'Homme et de la Femme (Of Man and Woman)

By M. de Lignac - Volume 3 

Anatomy of procreation - 1779

Chlorure de magnésium

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

EMPTY

Toothpaste - Antique apothecary

Porcelain pot with illustrated plastic lid

Antiseptic

Early 20th century - Caution the lid is cracked

Protective laboratory bell jar - Low form with knob in blown glass

Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary

Used by the pharmacist to cover precision instruments or isolate preparations undergoing analysis

Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 16

Selected Library of Medicine

By François PLANQUE - 1761

Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates

Antique pharmacy bottle from the 19th century

Balsamum Fioravanti - Balm of Fioravanti

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

Unknown bottle from Coopération Pharmaceutique Française

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Potassium Cyanide and Iron

Also known as yellow potassium prussiate

Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Datura powder

Antique earthenware pot

Intended for the exclusive use of pharmacists for making magistral preparations, the jar displays the regulatory labels "TOXIC" and the red banner "POISON".

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.

EMPTY

Specimen jar in blown glass - Inverted apothecary jar - Seed vase

Size S

A vintage laboratory or conservatory container designed for the display and preservation of biological or botanical specimens

Jusquiame 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.

A avaler aux repas To be taken with meals (as far as can be made out from the torn label)

Antique pharmacy bottle

Torn label