Cabinets displaying samples, including some from China in yellow tins, in the Musee Francois Tillequin – Collections de Matiere medicale, featuring laboratory collections of plants or parts of plants or animals used for medicinal purposes, at the former Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris, now the Faculte de Pharmacie at the Universite Paris Descartes, on the Avenue de l'Observatoire in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The 25,000 samples were collected in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and the museum was opened in 1882. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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