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Metronidazole 250 mg oral tablets, boxed with blister strip
Object/Artifact
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.
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Medical supplies of Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
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MINSAP
Maker Cuban state pharmaceutical production under MINSAP, specifically attributed to the Dirección Nacional de Medicamentos (National Directorate of Medicines) of the Ministerio de Salud Pública. Specific manufacturing plant not named. Date Circa 1970s–1980s (tentative; inferred). The MINSAP / Dirección Nacional de Medicamentos branding, packaging design, blister-strip format, and fixed public price are consistent with that period; "Lote: 7041" is a batch code. No printed manufacture date.
Front: circular logo "30 Tabletas"; "METRONIDAZOL"; "Tabletas Orales"; "Cada tableta contiene: Metronidazol 250 mg"; "DIRECCIÓN NACIONAL DE MEDICAMENTOS — MINSAP." Back: "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." Blister strip (repeating): "METRONIDAZOL oral / Metronidazol 250 mg / MINSAP."
Fair
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use, acquisition
The surviving blister strip, with its repeating "MINSAP" printing, preserves the primary packaging and the medicine itself. The fixed public price ("$2.25") again documents state price control. Together these items map both the institutional structure (plant-level vs. ministry-level attributions) and the everyday therapeutics of the Cuban public-health system.