Museum jar - Wet specimen - Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum
Museum jar - Wet specimen
Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its felt case
Late 19th century - Early 20th century
With an explanatory leaflet
From Lafay House Manufacturer: Surgical Instruments in Lyon
Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its felt case
Late 19th century - Early 20th century
From Lafay House Manufacturer: Surgical Instruments in Lyon
With an explanatory leaflet from the medical book: Petite Chirurgie et Technique Médicale Courante - Editions Masson, 1949.
This instrument was used to evacuate liquids, notably for pleurisy, an inflammation of the pleura, the membrane surrounding the lungs, which often contains liquid in the pleural cavity.
It could also be used to evacuate urine from a retained bladder or gas from an intestine strangled by a hernia.
(Source: conservatoire du patrimoine hospitalier de Rennes).
Rubber and fabric tubes have not survived the ages.
Includes:
-A steel pump with two end caps.
-A hollow metal rod with a double conduit branching into two branches, each fitted with a tap.
-Several trocars of different gauges, cannulas and foam punches.
Case dimensions: 27.5 x 12 x 5.5 cm: in good condition, case lined with purple velvet inside.
Museum jar - Wet specimen
Soft coral Alcyonium palmatum
Dextrin powder - Starch - Pulvis Dextrinae
Antique pharmacy bottle
Blown glass
Hypophosphite de Manganèse
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Antique glass urethral syringe by Dr JANET
For injection of liquid into the urethra
Antique glass urethral syringe by Dr JANET
For injection of liquid into the urethra
19th century Herbalist's or Pharmacy crystal jar
Iris
Ovarine
Antique pharmacy bottle
Apothecary vial
Antique pharmacy jar: Sodium bicarbonate and Gold Flower tablets
Glass pharmacy bottle - XIXth century
Crésyl
Antique pharmacy bottle - Droguerie - Apothicaire
19th century pharmacy display jar
Blown red glass
Blé empoisonné - Poisoned wheat
Empty tube - Antique vial
Antique brown glass bottle
Huile camphrée
Apothecary - Pharmacy
Potassium Bromide Elixir
Antique and large brown English pharmacy bottle
Antique 19th century pharmacy bottle
Radix althaeae Off - Marshmallow
Hypodermic Pravaz syringe - 19th century
Glass syringe and celluloid.
not functional
Syringe for antidiphtheria serum: Dr Roux's method
Walnut box from the manufacturers RAINAL Frères in Paris