Alum

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Color pigments have been added to the inside of the jar

Cumin Epicea Pill - Pil: Cum Picea

Antique blown glass pharmacy jar 

Apothecary

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

Portable autopsy kit from the mid-19th century

Maison Charrière in Paris, circa 1845–1870

Mahogany case for autopsy and dissection

Small portable mahogany case containing a set of autopsy instruments: hook hammer, bone chisel, enterotome scissors, probes, hooks and suture needles. Used by forensic scientists and anatomists for opening and examining bodies.

Charrière, a major 19th-century Parisian manufacturer, was a pioneer in the design of high-precision surgical and anatomical instruments.

Mahogany and polished steel: 23 × 11 cm

Please note: crack in the wood under the case

A beautiful object, very rare to find

Antique pharmacy box for remedy made of canvas cardboard

Myra pills 

Covering in sumptuous red maroquiné/chagrin paper, with edges and slices enhanced with a deep violet/purple very characteristic of the creations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: 1890/1910.

You buy 1 box but not the lot

Antique wooden advertising case for Nestlé concentrated infant milk

Found in Parisian cellars that served as laboratories and storage rooms for pharmacists preparing their masterful concoctions from 1900 to 1950.

It was used to store products, glass bottles, etc.

Period: Circa 1910–1930

Aqua Calris - Hot water

Antique pharmacy jar 

Apothecary

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.

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Late 19th century - 1885-1894

Antique medical instrument from manufacturer MATHIEU in Paris

non-functional

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

Label: Eau de Chaux Médicinale

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.

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

Gaiacolated Tincture of Iodine

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Painted papier-mâché anatomical model of the brain

Produced by Établissements Auzoux

Model No. 12 from the 1874 catalogue

Dismantlable, numbered model, used for medical teaching.

A rare item in excellent working condition

This is a 1:1 scale model of the brain, sold separately at the time as a demonstration model; it is not a brain that was found inside anatomical manikins.

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.

SOLD EMPTY

Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe

For intra-laryngeal injections.

Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940