Antique First aid kit for the healing of snake bites
Glass syringe and 2 vintage doses of vaccine
Vintage quack remedy!
Beautiful snake illustration on the aluminium box
Antique First aid kit for the healing of snake bites.
Manufactured by Michel LEGROS, a pharmacist from Limoges.
Aluminum case with a beautiful embossed illustration.
The metal box contains 2 ampoules filled with a herbal remedy.
In the early 20th century, Michel Legros, a pharmacist in Limoges, was a leading expert in botany.
He developed a product that, according to him, cured people bitten by venomous snakes with impressive speed...
Hunters, fishermen, and farmers in the region flocked to his pharmacy to purchase this kit.
The ampoule contained a solution of chromic anhydride, or chromium trioxide.
Legros’s instructions claimed that his solution was “oxygenating” and that it “restored the vital qualities of arterial blood to blood that had been deoxygenated by the venom.” This was scientifically completely false. Chromium trioxide is a powerful chemical oxidizing agent, but it does not supply breathable oxygen to cells and does nothing to neutralize the destructive enzymatic complexes in viper venom.
On the contrary, chromium trioxide is an extremely aggressive chemical compound, now classified as a carcinogen and highly corrosive.
In reality, injecting this product caused local tissue necrosis—the destruction of flesh.
His first-aid kit became famous throughout France and even abroad well into the 1960s.
It was only then that the effectiveness and safety of the products had to be proven... In reality, this antivenom had no effect on snake bites!
The kit contains:
- 2 ampoules of orange-colored antivenom
- 1 glass syringe labeled “Trousse MICHEL LEGROS” with a locked plunger
- 2 needles in the needle holder
Case dimensions: 8 x 7.5 cm
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 bottle
Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's
Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip
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Jusquiame - Henbane
Antique pharmacy bottle.
Red ‘POISON’ label
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.
Date: Begining of 20th century
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Pyridoxine hydrochloride - Vitamin B6
Antique pharmacy bottle
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Bulb for hypodermic injection - Camphor (circa 1920)
various manufacturers
Alcool camphrée
Antique pharmacy bottle
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Antipyrina Knorr
Named after its German discoverer: Ludwig Knorr
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century
Chlorure de magnésium
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
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Armand Vaast nasal spray - Oil vaporizer - Antique remedy
In its box
Used in otolaryngology, it was intended for nasal or oral sprays in the treatment of colds and antiseptic treatment of the respiratory tract.
Mercurochrome
Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary
Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9
Antique ampoule for hypodermic injection
Histogénol - (circa 1900)
Iodine dye
Antique pharmacy bottle
With the inscription Teinture d'Iode molded in glass
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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
Camphorated alcohol
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
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Silver iodide
Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label with golden blue threads
Red TOXIC 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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Mercuric cyanide
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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Antique First aid kit for the healing of snake bites
Glass syringe and 2 vintage doses of vaccine
Vintage quack remedy!
Beautiful snake illustration on the aluminium box
