
Agocholine Zizine - Antique remedy - Cylindrical metal box
Agocholine Zizine
Antique remedy
Cylindrical metal box
EMPTY
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.
Box from a collection from the 1930's by a pharmacist in Central France and kept in the attic of the pharmacy.
The box is made of light wood (pine wood?) and almost always has its handwritten label with the name in French and Latin, as well as its classification.
Contents: seeds, leaves, bark, roots, tubers, petals, flowers, gum, resin, mushrooms, lichen, moss etc...
Various sizes between 3.5cm (small size S), 4.5cm (medium size M) ,6.5cm (large size L) - Not all boxes are exactly this size.
As the collection comprises 199 samples, it is impossible to list it here. You will receive a random box. Surprise on arrival!
Agocholine Zizine
Antique remedy
Cylindrical metal box
EMPTY
Metal box of breath mints with cocaine
Box of pastilles Menthol-Borate-Cocaïne-Stovaïne from CPF Laboratories
1920's
EMPTY
Rue Powder
Rue was an abortive plant
Antique pharmacy bottle - Poison - Toxic
Antique pharmacy glass bottle
Sirop des Vosges Cazé - Pectoral cough syrup
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Antique study mask by Simonne Laubé, circa 1930
Anatomical skin
In vulcanized and painted rubber
Inspired by the famous death mask from L'Inconnue de la Seine
Antique pharmacy display jar
Blown red glass
Cremor tartari sol - Cream of tartar
Potassium bitartrate
Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle
Late 19th century
Sparteine sulphate
Used as a tonic for nervous syndromes at the very beginning of the 20th century, sparteine was also used to facilitate morphine withdrawal.
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Some product left inside
Antique brown glass bottle
Huile camphrée
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Antique and large drum microscope
In it's mahogany wooden box
For botanist, entomologist
This is a larger model than those usually found on the market
Essence of star anise
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Septichrome
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Pharmacopée royale galénique et chymique - 1753
Antique and Illustrated Pharmacopoeia
By Moyse CHARAS
This book contains all the plants, minerals and animals that went to make up the remedies used in those days. Some of them are quite surprising to our modern eyes.
Antique wooden box for herbal medicine - Samples of plants, seeds, bark etc.