Q COSTARICA
Literature from the Pharmaceutical Museum in Matanzas, Cuba, were recognized Thursday as “Memory of the World” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco).
The books include 61 volumes, 55 of which preserve formulas of the Ernesto Triolet’s “French Botica,” that was served from 1882 to 1964 in Matanzas.
“They also keep two volumes belonging to the Botica Nuestra Señora de Regla, and another four from the Farmacia San Rafael,” the director of the Pharmaceutical Museum, Marcia Brito, explained.
The Matanzas Pharmaceutical Museum also preserves 19th-century images and documents, which include chemistry research papers and medicine manufacturing procedures.
The museum is built on the drugstore that Ernesto Triolet opened in 1882, once the French doctor of pharmacy decided to settle down in the island. The establishment, which served customers for 82 years, became
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