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.

Lower part of the lower mandible of a horse jaw

Antique model from Maison Auzoux in Paris

Paper-mâché pedagogical model

Model B - 1 year

Clastic Mannequin - Dr. Auzoux's anatomical skinned

Toothpaste elixir

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

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

EMPTY

Antique pharmacy jar

Liquid Peptone

Raw meat product very fashionable in the first half of the 20th century.

Soufre sublimé - Sublimed sulfur

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

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

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

Camphorated oil

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

EMPTY but cap is blocked and bottle will not open

Jusquiame - Henbane

Antique pharmacy bottle.

Red ‘POISON’ label

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.

Date: Begining of 20th century

EMPTY

Packet of Potato Starch

Circa 1920

New old stock

Aqua Piris - Pear water

Antique pharmacy jar 

Apothecary

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

Reissue - XXL Herbalist Jar - Pharmacy Jar

Poudre de réglisse - Licorice powder

Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H28cm - 19th century

Shouldered apothecary bottle -  Antique pharmacy bottle

Mouth-blown glass - Cobalt blue color tinted throughout

This large-capacity jar was a storage jar intended for stockpiling