A cylindrical roll of medical absorbent cotton wool in its original wrapper, rolled in black paper with a printed paper label around the middle. The label, framed by a red rule on a buff ground, reads "脱脂药棉" in blue Chinese characters above red lettering "Coton / HYDROPHILE CHIRURGICAL." Below: "25克" and "Par 25 Grs." (net 25 grams), a central snowflake/snow-crystal trademark device lettered "SNOWFLAKE," "中華人民共和國製造 / FABRICATION: DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DE CHINE," and the exporter line "中國化工進出口公司上海市分公司出口 / EXPORTATION PAR SOCIÉTÉ NATIONALE CHINOISE D'IMPORTATION ET D'EXPORTATION DES PRODUITS CHIMIQUES, CHANGHAI, CHINE." This is the French-language export version of the same product as the collection's two English-labeled "Cotton Wool" rolls. The package is intact, aged, soiled, and toned.

A small cylindrical roll of medical absorbent cotton wool in its original wrapper. The cotton is rolled and wrapped in black paper, with a printed paper label around the middle. The label, framed by a red rule on a buff ground, reads in blue Chinese characters "脱脂药棉" (absorbent/degreased medicinal cotton) above "ABSORBENT" and, in red script, "Cotton Wool." Below: "1/16 磅装" and "1/16 Lb." (net weight one-sixteenth of a pound), a central circular device (a snowflake/snow-crystal trademark with Chinese characters), "中華人民共和國製造 / MADE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA," and "EXPORTED BY: CHINA NATIONAL CHEMICALS IMPORT & EXPORT CORP. SHANGHAI BRANCH." The package is intact, aged, soiled, and toned; the wrapper paper is worn and stained.

A small cylindrical roll of medical absorbent cotton wool in its original wrapper. The cotton is rolled and wrapped in black paper, with a printed paper label around the middle. The label, framed by a red rule on a buff ground, reads in blue Chinese characters "脱脂药棉" (absorbent/degreased medicinal cotton) above "ABSORBENT" and, in red script, "Cotton Wool." Below: "⅛ 磅装" and "⅛ Lb." (net weight one-sixteenth of a pound), a central circular device (a snowflake/snow-crystal trademark with Chinese characters), "中華人民共和國製造 / MADE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA," and "EXPORTED BY: CHINA NATIONAL CHEMICALS IMPORT & EXPORT CORP. SHANGHAI BRANCH." The package is intact, aged, soiled, and toned; the wrapper paper is worn and stained.

A cylindrical roll of medical absorbent cotton wool in its original wrapper, rolled in dark blue/green paper with a small rectangular printed paper label. The label is plain and typographic, reading only "ABSORBENT / COTTON WOOL / 1/4 POUND" in black serif type on a buff/white ground; there is a faint handwritten pencil notation at the left edge.

A small cylindrical amber glass apothecary or cosmetic jar with a black ribbed Bakelite-style threaded screw cap. The base carries three molded glass marks: a right mark consisting of two stacked oval forms (likely a glassworks identifier); a central numeral "30" (the 30 ml volume capacity); and a left mark (unidentified). The combination of base marks confirms the jar's identity as a pharmaceutical or cosmetic-pharmacy container, but the specific glassworks (left mark) cannot be identified with certainty from the available evidence.

A Cuban pharmaceutical package: a cardboard box for "AMINOFILINA I.V.," an intravenous injectable, with one surviving glass ampoule. The front (first image) is printed in black on buff card with a small "PF" logo at upper left: "LABORATORIO FARMACÉUTICO 04 / Línea No. 1276, La Habana. / AMINOFILINA I.V. / 3 Ampolletas de 10 ml / Inyección Intravenosa." A handwritten green-ink notation "A-35" (inventory mark) and two strips of gray adhesive tape are on the front. A long side panel (third image) reads "Úsese bajo prescripción facultativa. / Dosis: Las que el facultativo señale." The back (second image) reads "Precio al Público: $0.76" (with a partly obscured overstamp) and "Lote: 130101." The accompanying ampoule (fourth image) is a clear glass single-dose ampoule with red printed lettering (partly legible), soiled. The box is aged, foxed, and toned.

A Cuban pharmaceutical package: a cardboard box for "AMINOFILINA," an intravenous injectable, printed in black with gold/ochre and orange-red bands on buff card. The front (first image) reads "AMINOFILINA / INYECCIÓN INTRAVENOSA / 3 ampolletas de 10 ml / Cada ampolleta contiene: Aminofilina 0.25 g / Laboratorio Farmacéutico 204 / Línea 1276 – Vedado – Habana," with a vertical line "EMPRESA CONSOLIDADA DE PRODUCTOS FARMACÉUTICOS" and a stylized "PF"/ampoule logo at the right. The back (second image) reads "INDICACIONES Y DOSIS / Las que el facultativo señale / PRECIO AL PÚBLICO: $0.76 / LOTE:" with an ink-stamped lot number (approx. "311032").

An East German medical anesthetic package: a glass spray bottle of "Cloruro de Etilo" (ethyl chloride) with its cardboard box. The elongated, rounded glass vial has a metal spray valve/lever closure at the neck for releasing a fine jet of the volatile liquid. A red-and-white wraparound label reads "CLORURO DE ETILO / químicamente puro (DAB 6) / para anestesia local y general / Modelo B / Gebrüder Eichhorn, Mellenbach / República Democrática Alemana"; a faint hand-inked notation appears on the label's lower edge. The box (buff card, red-framed label) repeats: "CLORURO DE ETILO / 100 ccm / químicamente puro (DAB 6) / para anestesia local y general / Modelo B / GEBRÜDER EICHHORN · MELLENBACH / República Democrática Alemana." A box end-flap carries a handwritten pencil notation "Sept/68" with "$0.53" (a date and price). Box and bottle are heavily aged, foxed, and stained; the bottle is intact with its valve.

A small printed paperboard carton for a roll of medical gauze bandage, torn open at the top with the closure flaps detached/crushed and the contents partially exposed. The principal panel has a cream/buff ground with black serif lettering "VENDA / DE / GASA," a large orange quarter-circle (lower corner), and a red horizontal band near the base. An adjacent panel carries the product specification "5 x 550 cm," the price "Precio al Público: $0.15," and the issuing/responsible line "GRUPO ESPECIAL DE / MATERIALES DE CURACION" (the C of "CURACION" partly obscured), above the same red band. The contents — a roll of woven cotton gauze — appear present but soiled at the opened top. The product is a 5 cm × 550 cm gauze bandage.

Prescription-only medication produced by the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Laboratorio Farmacéutico Julio Trigo (Boyeros, Havana). The cardboard box and amber glass bottle list indications, contraindications (glaucoma), storage instructions, and a fixed retail price of $1.00.

A newborn's hospital identification band — a long, narrow translucent strip of repurposed nylon, now creased and limp, made to be wrapped around an infant and tied. The nylon was reused from another purpose, and traces of its earlier life remain visible as red printed lettering and a red line running along the band, alongside the birth record. A small paper insert held within the band carries the handwritten pencil inscription with the birth details. The piece is a single intact length with the data slip retained inside.

A single small sheet of a pre-printed Cuban public-health form (a prescription/clinical slip), completed by typewriter. The printed structure includes a ministry header, a "UNIDAD" line, a printed notice about prescriptions, a free-text body, and a footer grid of fields (date, physician, patient name, clinical-history number, admission-status checkboxes, ward, bed). The typed body is not a drug prescription but a signed-style certifying statement: it attests that a 64-year-old male patient, resident at a Havana address, suffers from marked arterial hypertension and nervous disorders that keep him from going out (including to the cinema), and that he therefore needs his broken television set repaired. The footer is dated by typewriter. The upper-right corner is torn away with paper loss.

A Cuban prescription pharmaceutical: a folded cardboard box of "METRONIDAZOL" oral tablets with a surviving blister strip of tablets. The front is printed in blue and orange on buff card: a circular blue/orange logo enclosing "30 Tabletas," "METRONIDAZOL" (blue, between orange bars), "Tabletas Orales," "Cada tableta contiene: Metronidazol 250 mg," and "DIRECCIÓN NACIONAL DE MEDICAMENTOS — MINSAP." The back reads "ADVERTENCIA: EN CASO DE TRICHOMONIASIS DEBEN SER TRATADOS AMBOS CÓNYUGES A LA VEZ. / PROTÉJASE DE LA LUZ / VENTA POR RECETA MÉDICA / Precio Público: $2.25 / Lote: 7041." The contents are a transparent cellophane/foil blister strip printed repeatedly "METRONIDAZOL oral / Metronidazol 250 mg / MINSAP," holding several round off-white tablets (the strip shown retains roughly six tablets in its cells, with empty cells). Box and strip are heavily aged, foxed, and stained; printing legible.

A Cuban prescription pharmaceutical box for "MORFINA-20," an injectable morphine preparation, now empty. The front is printed on buff card with a dark teal/blue title panel: "MORFINA-20 / Inyección Subcutánea o Intramuscular." Below: "10 ampolletas de 1 ml," a "MINSAP" roundel logo (Ministerio de Salud Pública) with a "CM" device, an ampoule pictogram, and the formula "Cada 1 ml contiene: Clorhidrato de Morfina 20 mg." A second printed face carries the regulatory and control text: "SUJETO AL CONTROL DE ESTUPEFACIENTES / ADVERTENCIA: Puede crear hábito. / PROTÉJASE DE LA LUZ / VENTA BAJO RECETA MÉDICA / Precio Público por ampolleta: $0.30 / Lote: 0001." Two printed red vertical rules (a common narcotic-marking convention) run down the box. A handwritten pencil notation ("14/3/…" or similar, with figures) appears at one side. The box is heavily aged, browned, stained, and edge-worn. It is empty; no ampoules are present.

Manufactured plastic-and-paper hospital newborn ID bracelet issued in a Havana maternity hospital on September 1, 1974, bearing the mother's name and clinical history number in handwritten ink under a clear cover, with original plastic buckle closure. The form is what María A. Cabrera Arús describes in her Cuba Material blog as a "manilla original," manufactured specifically for the purpose, distinguishing it from the improvised, nylon-strip bracelets she documents from the preceding year. The inscription identifies the mother of the newborn (standard Cuban maternity-hospital practice of the period), not the infant directly.

Small hospital newborn identification bracelet in pale pink plastic. A narrow flexible plastic band sized for an infant's wrist or ankle, closing with a snap fastener (stud visible) and a punched row of adjustment holes/slot at one end, tapering to a thin tab at the other. A handwritten paper identification slip is held beneath a clear plastic window in the band — ruled paper with cursive ink recording identifying details.

A Cuban prescription pharmaceutical: a small folded cardboard box for "CLORURO DE POTASIO" (potassium chloride) coated tablets, brand designation "ELECTROLITO." The front (first image) is printed in green and black on buff card: "VENTA POR RECETA MÉDICA / 20 Tabletas revestidas / CLORURO DE POTASIO" (in white on a green panel with horizontal stripes) / "Cada tableta revestida contiene: Cloruro de potasio 300 mg / Excipiente, cs / ELECTROLITO." The back (second image) prints clinical information in black: "INDICACIONES" (hypokalemia, diarrhea, vomiting, severe burns, diabetic coma, muscular asthenia, post-operative states, as an adjuvant in corticotropic/corticosteroid/digitalis/thiazide therapy), "CONTRAINDICACIONES" (Addison's disease, renal insufficiency), "POSOLOGÍA" (one to three grams daily in three doses), and "INSTRUCCIONES: TRITURAR Y DILUIR EN AGUA" (crush and dissolve in water). At the bottom: "Precio: $0.35," a lot line ("Lote: 6104…58" approx.), and a code "T-4-0268-E." The box is heavily aged, foxed, and toned. The box is empty; no tablets are present — it survives as packaging only.

An East German pharmaceutical export package: a cardboard box and its amber glass bottle of "Rudotel" (medazepam) tablets, a daytime tranquilizer. The box, printed in black on a white-and-orange ground, carries the "GERMED" maker's roundel and reads "50 tablets / 50 comprimés / 50 tabletas" and "Rudotel® (Medazepam)," with multilingual panels: (English) "Tranquilizer for Day-Time Use / Each tablet contains 10 mg of medazepam / See leaflet inside / Preserve from light"; (French) "Tranquillisant du jour / Chaque comprimé contient 10 mg de médazépam / Voir le prospectus ci-inclus / Protéger contre la lumière"; and the maker line "VEB ARZNEIMITTELWERK DRESDEN / Produced in the GDR / Produit en RDA." The amber bottle bears a label with the "GERMED" logo, "Rudotel® (Medazepam) / Calmante diurno / Cada tableta contiene 10 mg de medazepam / Según la prescripción médica / Proteger contra la luz / VEB ARZNEIMITTELWERK DRESDEN / Producido en la RDA," and "50 tablets"; it retains a cork/composition stopper and contains tablets. The box is heavily aged, foxed, water-stained, and worn at the edges; the bottle is intact with toned label.

A commercial packet of twelve surgical scalpel blades, Size 23, printed in Chinese and English. The label carries the Chinese title for surgical scalpel blades, a "12-piece pack" designation, the exporting company in both languages, "MADE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA," "SIZE 23," and a line illustration of a number-23 blade (the large curved "belly" blade that mounts on a number-4 scalpel handle).

A single drawn, flame-sealed glass ampoule with a rose/pink cast, formed as a slender vial body tapering into an elongated neck that closes in a rounded sealed tip (the tip slightly darker/amber). Printed dark-ink lettering on the body reads "VIT. B12," with a second line beginning "700…" that is only partly legible. The ampoule holds liquid contents, deep pink-red in tone — consistent with cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12) solution, which is characteristically that color. By its marking and 1 ml ampoule form, the unit is a Vitamina B12-100 injectable matching the product of the box in Record 1. Whether the rose coloration belongs to the glass, the contents, or both is not resolvable from the image. The ampoule is intact and unopened.

Small printed paperboard carton for an injectable pharmaceutical, with one accompanying sealed glass ampoule treated here as its surviving original content. The carton is two-tone: an upper field in aged cream/buff and a lower field in red, divided by a narrow tan/pink band. The principal display panel reads "6 Ampolletas de 1 ml / VITAMINA B12-100 / Inyección Intramuscular," with the dosage statement "Cada 1 ml contiene Cianocobalamina 100 µg" and a printed red illustration of a single ampoule at right. A second panel carries the dispensing notice "Venta bajo receta médica," a small printed monogram, and the manufacturer line "Laboratorio Farmacéutico 02 / Carret. R. Boyeros Km. 7½, Habana." One edge panel is printed "Precio al Público $ 2.15" and "Lote: 220191." A hand-inked notation crosses the red lower band of the front panel (reading uncertain). The accompanying ampoule is a drawn, flame-sealed glass unit holding deep red liquid, with "B12" legible on the body — consistent with the carton's product (cyanocobalamin/vitamin B12 solution is characteristically intense pink-red). The ampoule appears intact and unopened, contents present.