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

Use it with caution 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.

Essence of star anise

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Buckthorns syrup

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Eau de Botot - Tooth-cleansing Elixir

CODEX 1884

Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Alcool dénaturé - Alcool à brûler

Denatured alcohol - Methylated spirits

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Empty

Box of rubber washers for hot water bottles 

In its original cardboard box

1939/1940

New Old Stock

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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Anatomical Atlas by A. Bossu

Anthropology - End of the XIXth century

20 engravings of Anatomy by Léveillé

Huile de ricin

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Soufre sublimé - Sublimed sulfur

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Racine de Ratanhia - Para Rhatany

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

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

TOXIC label - Do not exceed the prescribed dose

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.

Phénol Aqueux

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 - POISON

EMPTY

Sparteine sulphate

Used as a tonic for nervous syndromes at the very beginning of the 20th century, sparteine was also used to facilitate morphine withdrawal.

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Some product left inside

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.

Gelatine

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

19th-century mouth-blown glass

There is still some product left inside

A fascinating artifact from the history of pharmacology