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

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Carbonate de Potasse

Antique pharmacy bottle

Early 20th century (circa 1910 - 1920)

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Antique pharmacy jar: Illicium verum (Fruit) / Star anise

Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century

Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Blown glass

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

To be used with care 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.

Toothpaste - Antique apothecary

Porcelain pot with illustrated plastic lid

Antiseptic

Early 20th century - Caution the lid is cracked

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

Antique glass eye

Real antique eye prosthesis

Armand Vaast nasal spray - Oil vaporizer - Antique remedy

In its box

Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.

Tincture of Jalap Compound also known as German brandy

A purgative powder is extracted from the Jalap plant.

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Iodine dye

Antique pharmacy bottle

With the inscription Teinture d'Iode molded in glass

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Cinnamon Water

Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle

Chloroform

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th

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.

Toothpaste elixir

Antique pharmacy bottle

Handwritten label with pen

Test Tube with Special Bulb for Mercury Ureometer - 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary

Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary

To be diverted into a soliflore vase