Dictionnaire Universel des Drogues Simples

Universal dictionnary of Simple Drugs

By Nicolas Lemery

An antique illustrated pharmacopoeia from 1727 - A Dutch pirated edition

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

Poison label - Ref A

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.

Grams / Tablespoons - Graduated bottle

in French: Grammes / Cuillères à soupe

Antique medicine bottle

Apothecary

Impalpable Nux Vomica powder

White earthenware pot

Red POISON and 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.

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.

EMPTY

Crushed cola nuts

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

Alcool camphrée

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Gardénal - Phenobarbital - Barbiturates

Phényléthylmalonylurée

Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Label: DANGEROUS

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.

EMPTY

Chloroform

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th

Hemlock leaves - POISON

Antique pharmacy bottle - Wide-mouth apothecary jar.

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.

Reseptine

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

Le corps de l'Homme

Anatomical colour plates with cut-out superimposed leaves

By Edmond Perrier - Schleicher Frères & Cie Editeurs

No date, circa 1900

Huile camphrée

Antique pharmacy bottle

EMPTY

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

Poison label - Ref A

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.

Sydenham's Laudanum - Opium tincture

Antique pharmacy bottle

Labels: TOXIQUE and POISON label with skulls with crossed bones

This means that this bottle had to be kept separate from the others because it was dangerous - POISON

EMPTY

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

Antique pharmacy jar: Illicium verum (Fruit) / Star anise

Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century