Sydenham's Laudanum - Opium tincture
Antique pharmacy bottle
Labels: TOXIQUE and POISON label with skulls with crossed bones
This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous - POISON
EMPTY
Sydenham's Laudanum - Opium tincture
Antique pharmacy bottle
Labels: TOXIQUE and POISON label with skulls with crossed bones
Which means that this bottle had to be kept apart from the others because it was very dangerous and deadly - POISON
Laboratory reserve amber glass bottle from the early 20th century, coming from the network of hospitals and pharmacies of the General Administration of Public Assistance in Paris.
The bottle is distinguished by a hazard warning system of remarkable density: an official bright red label, the storage banner "TO SEPARATE" and a macabre cartridge flanked by two skulls framing the word "Poison".
It contained one of the most famous opiate preparations in the history of medicine: Sydenham’s Laudanum
Laudanum is a highly addictive alcoholic tincture of opium.
Sydenham’s laudanum is a saffron opium tincture introduced and tested by Sydenham during the dysentery epidemics of 1669-1672 in London, nicknamed "the aspirin of the 19th century".
Until the widespread use of morphine, this remedy will remain the most widely used analgesic. It is a calming opiate brew.
In England, it was customary to give a little laudanum to restless babies to make them sleep... It was commonly prescribed in Victorian homes as a painkiller and often recommended for diarrhea, cough, rheumatism, painful menstruation, heart disease, hysteria etc.
But pharmaceutical opiate preparations will move easily from therapeutic to recreational use, especially as they are available over the counter at low cost in the UK.
Opiomania affects all classes of society in England and even generates an aesthetic research that will leave a trace in the history of literature. The poets Coleridge, De Quincey, Poe and Baudelaire who call themselves "opium eaters" (opiophages), however, are rather opium drinkers.
However, in this 19th century, the rise of the addictive consumption of laudanum in popular English circles created very serious health problems.
There are no longer any commercially available forms of this dye in France.
Here, the bottle is accompanied by several warnings: this substance had to be stored separately in the Poisons Cabinet, whose key was held only by the pharmacist.
It comes from an old cellar-laboratory in a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not moved since the late 1950s on the shelves!
Height of the bottle: 19.5cm with cap
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Iode Bi-Sublimé - Bi-Sublimated Iodine
Antique 19th-century blown-glass pharmacy jar
EMPTY
Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles
In its original cardboard box
1939/1940
New Old Stock
Dropper bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip
EMPTY
Antique pharmacy jar: Sodium bicarbonate and Gold Flower tablets
Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century
Specimen jar in blown glass – Inverted apothecary jar - Seed vase
Size M
A vintage laboratory or conservatory container designed for the display and preservation of biological or botanical specimens
Potassium Cyanide and Iron
Also known as yellow potassium prussiate
Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle
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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
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
Test Tube with Special Bulb for Mercury Ureometer - 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
Period: 1900 - Pharmacy - Apothecary
To be diverted into a soliflore vase
Veronal - Barbiturates - Diethylmalonylurea
Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.
Label: DANGEROUS
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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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.
Chloroform
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th
Iron & Soda Pyrophosphate
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Toothpaste elixir
Antique pharmacy bottle
Handwritten label with pen
Bibliothèque Choisie de Médecine - Volume 6
Selected Library of Medicine
By François PLANQUE - 1749
Complete original edition with 5 fold-out plates
Sydenham's Laudanum - Opium tincture
Antique pharmacy bottle
Labels: TOXIQUE and POISON label with skulls with crossed bones
This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous - POISON
EMPTY
