Turbith Minéral - 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
There is still some product inside but the cap is blocked and does not open.
Turbith Minéral - 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.
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 has its original cap honed with emery BUT the bottle is blocked and does not open, sealed by time.
Beautiful enamelled label stenciled surrounded by a brown/red border. The bottle still contains its original powder of a brilliant yellow. 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.
From the mercurials pharmacopoeia of yesteryear, Turbith Mineral (basic mercury sulfate) was one of the most violent and feared emetics (vomitives) of the 19th century.
Administered in infinitesimal doses to purge the body, cure syphilis or try to save children choked by croup, this product was of a devastating toxicity. An overdose caused rapid destruction of the digestive mucosa and kidneys, resulting in death by massive dehydration and cardiovascular shock or blood poisoning.
A product illustrating the sometimes terrifying role of the remedies of the time.
Height of the bottle: 11cm with blown glass cap - Diameter at the base: 4cm
Dating: 19th century
There is still some product inside but the cap is blocked and does not open.
Infangyl Carlier
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
The box still contains its full, sealed bottle and instructions
Le Jardin des Plantes
Description and habits of the mammals in the menagerie and the Natural History Museum
By Boitard - Antique book circa 1851
A beautiful snapshot of the museum and its garden in the mid-19th century, featuring interiors of the museum that no longer exist today.
Silver nitrate
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
There is still some product inside but the cap is blocked and does not open.
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
M. BENOIT Pharmacy
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY - Blocked cap
Tincture of Jalap Compound also known as German brandy
A purgative powder is extracted from the Jalap plant.
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
White Precipitate - 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
There is still some product inside but the cap is blocked and does not open.
Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments - From a pharmacy or herbalist's cabinet
3 compartments
Ref C - 39.5x50cm
Can be used as a storage box
Weight: 4.1kg !
Dropper No. xx05
Antique pharmacy bottle
He's lost his rubber duck
EMPTY
Dropper bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip
EMPTY
Arsenic - Sodium arsenate
Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label. Yes, it is indeed the arsenic you know!
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 but the cap is blocked and does not open.
Foxglove leaves - POISON
Antique pharmacy bottle - 19th-century mouth-blown glass
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.
A fascinating testimony to pharmacology
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.
Mineraline by Dr C. Baud
Antique tin pharmacy box
Powder or talcum powder for children's toiletries
Butterfly - Natural History color plate
Entomology
You buy 1 plate, not the whole set
Collodion
Used as a liquid dressing
Antique pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Eau de Botot - Tooth-cleansing Elixir
CODEX 1884
Antique 19th-century pharmacy bottle
EMPTY
Turbith Minéral - 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
There is still some product inside but the cap is blocked and does not open.
