4916. Compound Iron Pills

4916.   Compound Iron Pills. Triturate together 2 drachms myrrh and 1 drachm carbonate of soda; then add 1 drachm sulphate of iron, and make up with syrup into 80 pills.

4917. Compound Cathartic Pills

4917.  Compound Cathartic Pills. Take 1/2 ounce compound extract of colocynth, 3 drachms extract of jalap, 3 drachms mild chloride of mercury, and 2 scruples gamboge; mix with water to make 180 pills.

4918. Copaiba Pills

4918.     Copaiba Pills. Mix 2 ounces copaiba with 1 drachm fresh magnesia; set it aside to dry, and, when the mass is of proper consistency, make into 200 pills.

4919. Mercurial Pills

4919.    Mercurial Pills. These are commonly known as blue pills. Rub 1 ounce mercury with 11/2 ounces confection of roses; add 1/2 ounce liquorice root, and divide into 480 pills.

4920. Calomel Pills

4920.     Calomel Pills. Mix 1/2 ounce mild chloride of mercury with 1 drachm powdered gum-arabic. Make up with syrup, into 240 pills.

4921. Compound Galbanum Pills

4921.    Compound Galbanum Pills. 6 drachms myrrh, and 2 drachms assafoetida, mixed with sufficient syrup. Make 240 pills.

4922. Rhubarb Pills

4922.    Rhubarb Pills. Mix 3 drachms powdered rhubarb and 1 drachm soap with water to make 60 pills.

4923. Compound Rhubarb Pills

4923. Compound Rhubarb Pills. Form into a mass with sufficient water, 1 ounce rhubarb, 6 drachms aloes, 1/2 ounce myrrh, and 1/2 fluid drachm oil of peppermint. Divide into 240 pills.

4924. Compound Pills of Squill

4924.    Compound Pills of Squill. Mix

1  drachm powdered squill, 2 drachms ammoniac, and 2 drachms ginger, with 3 drachms soap. Make up with syrup into 120 pills.

4925. Compound Storax Pills

4925.    Compound Storax Pills. Take 6 drachms of storax, 2 drachms of powdered opium, and 2 drachms of saffron; work up to the proper consistency of a pill mass. Dose, from 5 to 10 grains.

4926. Sulphur Pills

4926.     Sulphur Pills. The following formulae furnish a convenient and neat method of administering sulphur when this useful medicine is required to be given as an alterative in chronic rheumatism and certain diseases of the skin: Take sulphur, 42 grains; castile soap, 18 grains. Mix and divide into 12 pills. 1 to 3 pills for a dose, morning and night. Or: Take sulphur and acetate of po-tassa, of each 24 grains. Make up with sufficient confection of roses into 12 pills. 1 or

2   twice a day in scorbutic and scrofulous cases, and when sulphur generally is indicated.

4927. Sulphite of Soda Pills

4927.    Sulphite of Soda Pills. Dr. Polli, who introduced the sulphites to the notice of the medical profession in certain blood diseases, recommends the following formula: Take powdered sulphite of soda, 36 grains; powdered ginger, 12 grains. Make up with mucilage into 12 pills. Dose, 1 to 3 soon after eating. These are given when the stomach is foul, and the food ferments and becomes putrescent. The sulphite of magnesia, Dr. Polli says, is better for this purpose than sulphite of soda. Sulphur obtained by decomposing precipitated sulphide of copper, called brown sulphur, is stated by Dr. J. Han-non, an English Physician, to be a most powerful remedy against gout and rheumatism.

4928. Pepsine and Iron Pills

4928.    Pepsine and Iron Pills. Mix together 2 drachms 34 grains starchy pepsine, and half that weight of iodide of iron in crystals, with sufficient syrup to make 100 pills. Cover them with 21/2 drachms reduced iron, and finish with sugar-coating.

4929. Compound Taraxacum Pills

4929.    Compound Taraxacum Pills. Take 1/2 drachm extract of taraxacum, and 10 grains blue pill. Make into 10 pills. Dose, 1 pill three times a day, in dropsy with disease of the liver.

4930. Pills of Iodide of Iron

4930.    Pills of Iodide of Iron. Mix1/2 troy ounce iodine with 1 fluid ounce water in a thin glass bottle ; add 2 drachms iron wire in small pieces, and shake together until a clear green solution is formed. Mix 1 troy ounce sugar, 1/2 troy ounce marshmallow, 1 drachm gum-arabic, and 1 drachm reduced iron, all in fine powder, in a porcelain capsule. Filter upon them, through a small filter, first the green solution, heated, and afterwards 2 fluid drachms water. Evaporate over a water-bath with constant stirring, to a mass, and divide it into 300 pills. Dissolve 60 grains balsam of tolu in 1 fluid drachm ether, shako the pills in the solution until uniformly coated, and place them on a plate, occasionally stirring them until dry. Keep in a well stoppered bottle. (U. S. Ph.) The iodide of iron pills, as ordinarily prepared, crumble by time and exposure; but, made according to the above formula, they will undergo no change. This is the plan proposed by Prof. Procter in imitation of Blancard's Pills. (U. S. Dis.)