Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard

Poison label - Ref B

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.

Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Blown glass

Eau de Cologne du Mont St Michel

Antique BLUE glass pharmacy bottle

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Arrhénal - Sodium methylarsinate - Arsenic

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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Excerpt from Strophanthus MENIER - TINY pot

Early/ mid-20th century pharmacy jar in white earthenware

Beautiful labels: Red POISON label with the famous skull and crossbones and the Poisonous Substances 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.

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Iron & Soda Pyrophosphate

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Antique glass eye

Real antique eye prosthesis

Square Section Dropper Bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip

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Foxglove leaves - POISON

Antique pharmacy bottle - 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.

Human jaws in porcelain mounted on a blackened wooden base

Anatomical dental model for dentists

19th century

Incense

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There are still some product inside.

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Notebook – Order book from the Berthier Pharmacy in Paris

Writing on the first four pages only; the rest is blank

Pyramidon

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar

Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles 

In its original cardboard box

1939/1940

New Old Stock

Museum jar - Wet specimen

Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum