Chloroform
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th
Chloroform
Pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Herboristerie
Late 19th century, early 20th century
Glass blown at the mouth because there remains the depression of the stem of the cane under the jar, a sign of tearing off of the glassmaker’s cane. Plug made of sheet metal.
Stencilled enamel label.
Chlorof label: for chloroform
Discovered in the early 1830s, chloroform revolutionized modern medicine by becoming, alongside ether, one of the first general inhalation anesthetics used in surgery.
If chloroform has made spectacular advances in making surgical procedures painless, its medical use was gradually abandoned in the 20th century for several major reasons:
Cardiac toxicity and chloroform syncope: It could cause severe arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest during anesthesia.
Hepatotoxicity: Exposure to chloroform frequently resulted in post-operative liver damage such as liver necrosis.
Very narrow therapeutic margin: The limit between the dose needed for anesthesia and the lethal dose was extremely low.
Its use has thus been supplanted by safer anaesthetics, relegating chloroform to synthetic chemistry.
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.
This large-capacity jar was a reserve jar intended for the storage of raw materials to be processed into powders, tinctures or infusions in the pharmacy laboratory.
Diameter 8cm. Height with cap 23cm
SOLD EMPTY
Racine de Ratanhia - Para Rhatany
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Antique glass dropper in white glass
Apothecary - Pharmacy
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
Camphorated oil
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
EMPTY but cap is blocked and bottle will not open
Antipyrina Knorr
Named after its German discoverer: Ludwig Knorr
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century
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
Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae
Antique pharmacy bottle
Blown glass
Dropper bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Remains of a label from the Parc du Monceau Pharmacy
Is there any bluish residue left inside, and the bottle may have served as an inkwell at one time?
EMPTY
Ebonite and glass laryngeal syringe
For intra-laryngeal injections.
Marketed between May 1939 and sometime in 1940
Anatomie de L'Homme - 1831
Anatomy of Man
Volume 2 with its black and white Atlas - 99 lithography
By Dr Bourgery and the illustrator Jacob
Bi-Carbonate de Soude - Sodium bicarbonate
Antique cardboard pharmacy box
Beautiful typography typical of the Belle Époque: circa 1910-1920
Ancient First-aid kit for healing snake bites
antique first-aid kit from the Pharmacie Michel LEGROS
Glass syringe in its case
Antique Snake Oil Salesmen product! Quack Medicine
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 ampoule for hypodermic injection
Histogénol - (circa 1900)
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 8
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1750
Complete original edition with 10 fold-out plates
Antique sodium chloride infusion bulb
500cm3
in its original box - Still full
Chloroform
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th
