Arsenic - Iron arsenate
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
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Arsenic - Iron arsenate
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.
Laboratory or pharmaceutical dispensary bottle, typical of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
Made of blown transparent glass, it has a trace of pontil visible on the bottom, reflecting traditional artisanal manufacturing. It is equipped with its original cap honed with emery, ensuring a perfect fit with the neck of the bottle.
Beautiful enamelled label stenciled with golden highlights, framed by a blue and gold net. This baked enamel technique guaranteed great resistance to handling and chemicals in the pharmacy. A red regulatory label marked "POISON" is applied at the bottom, indicating the poisonous nature of the substance.
Yes, it is indeed the arsenic you know!
This bottle contained iron arsenate, a salt combining iron which was then a usual remedy for blood and anemia with the violence of arsenic.
Pharmacists at the time exploited this dual nature to design restorative preparations that would galvanize organisms weakened by anemia, emerging tuberculosis or resistant chronic skin conditions.
Under fortifier outsides, this compound was nevertheless a formidable weapon of the pharmacopoeia...
A mishandling error or miscalculation by the pharmacist in the preparation of infinitesimal doses could transform the remedy into an agent of overwhelming toxicity, causing violent convulsions, circulatory failures and rapid agony.
Just like sodium arsenate, it embodies in the collective imagination and in the intrigues of the masters of the detective novel, like Agatha Christie or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this slow insidious poison, capable of simulating a natural disease to better deceive the entourage and the investigators.
A product reflecting the time when the boundary between healing and murder was one milligram or less!
Height of the bottle: 12cm with blown glass cap - Diameter at the base: 4cm
Dating: 19th century
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Antique pharmacy jar: Lignum Quillayae Saponaria
Panama wood - 19th century jar
Antique glass dropper in white glass
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Tincture of Jalap Compound also known as German brandy
A purgative powder is extracted from the Jalap plant.
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Myrrh
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
Dropper bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip
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Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
BYLA - Antique Pharmacy bottle in amber glass
Iode Bi-Sublimé - Bi-Sublimated Iodine
Antique 19th-century blown-glass pharmacy jar
EMPTY
Antique Pravaz hypodermic injection syringe - 19th century
Syringe in it's case
not functional
Antique drum microscope for botanist, entomologist
Mirror missing
Late 19th century, early 20th century
Piperazine
Antique amber glass bottle. The cap is missing
Green label: SUBSTANCE TO BE STORED SEPARATELY – CODEX 1908
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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Very Large cobalt blue glass pharmacy bottle - Apothecary - Shouldered - H27.5cm - 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
Mineraline by Dr C. Baud
Antique tin pharmacy box
Powder or talcum powder for children's toiletries
Rock Candy
Antique Apothecary Bottle of Rock Candy – Coopération Pharmaceutique Française (circa 1930–1940)
It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had remained untouched on the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar served as a medical analysis laboratory and as a laboratory for the pharmacy's compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.
It still contains large crystals of rock candy (Saccharum candi), perfectly preserved.
Puldose Nasal Spray for aqueous solutions - Antique remedy
In its Plastic box
Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.
Infangyl Carlier
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
The box still contains its full, sealed bottle and instructions
Arsenic - Iron arsenate
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
