Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — Cuban Drug Stores. [ARTICLE]

Cuban Drug Stores.

There are two hundred and fifty drug stores in Havana for the 250,000 inhabitants, and the same ratio may be accepted for the other cities of Cuba. There are also many organizations and societies which employ doctors and their own pharmacists and dispense medicine to the society members. Physicians, however, do not often dispense medicine. The average number of prescriptions compounded is lees than in the United States. The pharmacist is not permitted by law to prescribe, and the relation between physicians and pharmacists is friendly. Doctors prescribe a great amount of ready made or patented medicine. Prescriptions are the best part of the drug business in Cuba, as pharmacists there sell less of toilet articles, cigars, etc., than are sold in American drug stores. The customer Is considered the proprietor of his prescription, which is returned to him after being entered in the prescription book. Pharmacists In the larger Cuban cities fill foreign prescriptldns as well, consulting the pharmacopoeia ot the country from which it comes. Cuban pharmacists generally prepare their own tinctures and ointments. Cuban pharmacists have great difficulty in obtaining good clerks. The pay is >25 to |IOO per month. They are free three times a week after 6 p. m. and also every second Sunday. Pharmacies are open from 6 in the morning until 10 or 11 at night, Sundays included.

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