Le Jardin des Plantes

Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum

By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851

A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.

Rare and authentic wall sign panel

Pharmacy and fitting brand - Miss Hélène Deux, Bandagiste & 1st class Herbalist

Officine sign panel in painted wood from the 19th-20th century hinge: 1890-1920.

The sign is made of 2 reinforced wood panels at the back. There is a space between the 2 panels.

The sign features a superb art lettering entirely made freehand by a letter painter (superb contrasts of blue and brown, neat full and loose) 

Witness to the history of pharmacy and ancient orthopaedics: the bandagist shaping leather and frames for corsets and restraints, and the herbalist 1st class, a profession that has disappeared since the abolition of the diploma in 1941.

Dropper No. xx05

Antique pharmacy bottle

He's lost his rubber duck

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Dropper Bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

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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 labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard

Non-renewable 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.

Cours d'opérations de chirurgie, démontrées au Jardin Royal

Course of surgical operations, demonstrated in the Royal Garden

Published in 1751 in Paris, by d'Houry, sole printer and bookseller to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans

Fourth edition

Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings in the text, including the famous plate of Poor Malabou and her scrotal elephantiasis on page 112/113, which the author mentions on page 373.

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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1937 Codex – French Pharmacopoeia

6th Edition – Decree of 21 February 1937

Volume I only

Potassium Cyanide and Iron

Also known as yellow potassium prussiate

Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle

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Créosote

Antique pharmacy bottle

Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE SEPARATED - CODEX 1908

This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous in high doses

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Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

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

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Lower part of the lower mandible of a horse jaw

Antique model from Maison Auzoux in Paris

Paper-mâché pedagogical model

Model A - 9 months

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

By M. de Lignac - Volume 3 

Anatomy of procreation - 1779

Berthet - Pharmacie de la Rotonde

Antique pharmacy bottle

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Soufre sublimé - Sublimed sulfur

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle