Eau Régale - Dangerous acid

Skull and crossbones symbol on the label

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’.

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Eau Régale: Mixture of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid. Very corrosive. The king of acids, it dissolves gold and other noble materials.

Iodine dye

Antique pharmacy bottle

With the inscription Teinture d'Iode molded in glass

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Collodion

Used as a liquid dressing

Antique pharmacy bottle

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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

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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

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Zinc Phosphide: The Killer Gas

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: Circa 1890–1910: Belle Epoque

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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) 

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Chloroform

Pharmacy jar - Herbalism - Apothecary bottle

Late 19th century - Beginning of the 20th

Iodure de Sodium

Antique pharmacy bottle

End of the 19th century—very beginning of the 20th century: circa 1890-1910

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Carbonate de Potasse

Antique pharmacy bottle

Early 20th century (circa 1910 - 1920)

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Mummy hand - REPLICA

Artist reproduction by Jérôme Cavailles

Support for Mummy’s Head 

Pedestal in blackened turned wood, 19th century style

Sold alone