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Dr. Potain’s aspirator set in its felt-lined box
Late 19th century, circa 1880
Antique medical instrument without manufacturer marking
non-functional
Dr. Potain’s aspirator set in its felt-lined box
Late 19th century, circa 1880
Antique medical instrument without manufacturer marking
This instrument was used to evacuate fluids, particularly for pleurisy — an inflammation of the pleura, the membrane surrounding the lungs, which often causes fluid build-up in the pleural cavity.
It could also be used to drain urine from a retained bladder or release gas from an intestinal strangulation caused by a hernia. Additionally, it could be used to inject fluids.
(Source: Conservatoire du Patrimoine Hospitalier de Rennes).
The set is complete, but the rubber tubing has not survived over time; the rubber has hardened and breaks into small pieces if handled.
Includes:
One steel pump equipped with two fittings at its end.
One double-conduit hollow metal rod branching into two tubes, each fitted with a stopcock.
Trocars of various gauges, junto with canulas and blunt stylets.
Case dimensions: 27.5 x 12 x 5.5 cm
Marking of Dr. Potain’s aspirator on the inner felt.
Case covered in black pebbled leather with blind-stamped borders on top. Push-button latch. Typical box manufacturing from the 1870–1895 period.
Non-functional.
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.
EMPTY
Corrosive sublimate - Bichloride of mercury
Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label.
Red POISON 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.
Dating: 19th century
EMPTY
Berthet - Pharmacie de la Rotonde
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Dropper Bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
EMPTY
Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments
6 compartments
Curiosity shelf
Ref C - 48x34.5cm - Thickness 9.5cm
Can be used as a presentation furniture
SOLD EMPTY WITHOUT ACCESSORIES
Mercurous iodide
Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label with golden blue threads
Red POISON 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.
Dating: 19th century
EMPTY
Floroscope
Botanist's microscope
Pocket microscope Late 19th - early 20th century
Warning: Here composed of 2 Stanhope lenses
Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae
Antique pharmacy bottle
Blown glass
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
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
Iode Bi-Sublimé - Bi-Sublimated Iodine
Antique 19th-century blown-glass pharmacy jar
EMPTY
Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments - From a pharmacy or herbalist's cabinet
4 compartments
Ref A - 39.5x50cm
Can be used as a storage box
Weight: 4.1kg !
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
Pocket microscope
Floroscope - Insectoscope in brass
1850's - 1930's
Dr. Potain’s aspirator set in its felt-lined box
Late 19th century, circa 1880
Antique medical instrument without manufacturer marking
non-functional