Abstract

DIESTE SANCHEZ, Waldo. Farmacia "Garay", último bastión de la homeopatía en Cuba en su primera etapa. Rev Cubana Farm [online]. 2001, vol.35, n.2, pp. 116-121. ISSN 1561-2988.

After learning that in "Garay" Pharmacy, located in Sagua la Grande, Villa Clara province, Cuba, patients were seen and highly demanded and accepted homeopathic drugs were prescribed, prepared and sold from 1918 to 1963, we decided to characterize the functioning of this place. As a qualitative technique to obtain information, we used the individual non-structured interview applied to 58 persons (physicians, pharmacists, or pharmacy aides at that time, people who know the local history very well, people that used to live in Garay´s family neighborhood or near the pharmacy, contemporary relatives of the family, residents of the Home for the Aged and older people going to the House of Grandparents. There is no antecedent of such an extended presence of homeopathy in Cuba, which allows us to state that it was in this city where the last bastion of this therapeutics in its first stage was located.

Keywords : HISTORY OF HOMEOPATHY; FORMULARIES, HOMEOPATHIC; HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACIES; CUBA.

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