Gelatine

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

Berthet - Pharmacie de la Rotonde

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

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.

Antique sodium chloride infusion bulb 

500cm3

in its original box - Still full

70° alcohol

Antique pharmacy bottle - Apothecary

Mrs Bataille-Simon, First Class Pharmacist in Beaumont sur Sarthe - Tel 9

Gaiacolated Tincture of Iodine

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Mercury Proto-Iodide - Syphilis Treatment

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.

Period: Late 19th century - Very early 20th century (circa 1890–1910) 

EMPTY

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

Salamander - Pharmacy corkscrew in bronze 

XIXth century

Iron & Soda Pyrophosphate

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Packet of Potato Starch

Circa 1920

New old stock

Solution N°153

Antique pharmacy bottle 

Apothecary vial 

Dropper bottle

Antique pharmacy bottle - 1920-30's

Glass stopper honed in the shape of a heart for better grip

EMPTY

Antique glass dropper in white glass 

Apothecary - Pharmacy

Narceine - Opium Derivative

Antique pharmacy bottle made of blown glass and enameled painted label.

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

EMPTY - The bottle is blocked and does not open, sealed by time

Antique labels in a pharmacy box for cures made of canvas cardboard

Formalin label

The pharmacist used his boxes of medicine to put away the labels he would then put on the bottles that he would resell to his customers.