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Scolopendre - Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
  • Scolopendre - Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
  • Scolopendre - Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
  • Scolopendre - Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
  • Scolopendre - Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Scolopendre - Antique Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary Mouth-blown glass bottle

€70.00

Scolopendre 

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary Mouth-blown glass bottle

Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th

Description

Scolopendre 

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th

Mouth-blown glass, as the depression of the cane's pontil remains under the jar.

Beautiful original paper label lined with a double black net

Printed with the typographic mention "Scolopendr" (for Scolopendrium, Asplenium scolopendrium).

It is a medicinal fern that owes its name to the Greek skolopendra (the centipede) because on the back of its fronds, the oblique alignment of spore clusters evoked for ancient botanists the shape and numerous legs of the hart’s-tongue.

Traditionally used as a decoction to treat the spleen or insect bites.

Tin stopper.

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 10cm. Height with cap 24cm

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