Antique apothecary bottle – Coca powder – Late 19th century/Early 20th century

POISON

Coca powder is the source of cocaine, which was the first effective local anaesthetic used in surgery and dentistry.

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BYLA - Antique Pharmacy bottle in amber glass

Hemlock 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.

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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Red chalk drawing- Anatomical drawing 

Anatomical study 

Drawn by Eugène de Montchoisy in Saint-Brieuc in November 1840

These are not reproductions but original period drawings in red chalk.

You are purchasing one plate, not the entire set of plates

Antique surgical board

From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796

Dry sodium iodide

Antique pharmacy bottle - drugstore - apothecary

Delphinium staphisagria - Stavesacre

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century, early 20th century.

Boule de Nancy - Genuine Mars Vulnerary Ball - Steel Ball

This iron-containing ball was once considered a miracle cure for many ailments and injuries.

The Boule de Nancy is sold individually in a small antique drugstore box

Unavailable today

Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples

Universal dictionnary of Simple Drugs

By Nicolas Lemery

An antique illustrated pharmacopoeia from 1727 - A Dutch pirated edition

Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu

Anthropology - End of the XIXth century

20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé

Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe

For intra-laryngeal injections.

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940

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

Central Pharmacy of the Civil Hospitals of Paris

Antique pharmacy bottle

Apothecary

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.

Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

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

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