The practice of pharmacy : a treatise on the modes of making and dispensing officinal, unofficinal, and extemporaneous preparations, with descriptions of their properties, uses, and doses intended as a hand-book for pharmacists and physicians and a text-book for students / by Joseph P. Remington.

  • Remington, Joseph P. (Joseph Price), 1847-1918.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The practice of pharmacy : a treatise on the modes of making and dispensing officinal, unofficinal, and extemporaneous preparations, with descriptions of their properties, uses, and doses intended as a hand-book for pharmacists and physicians and a text-book for students / by Joseph P. Remington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Phosphorus, then the Glycerin and the Water, and quickly form a mass, to be divided into one hundred pills. Dissolve one part of Balsam of Tolu in one part of Stronger Ether, shake the pills with a sufficient quantity of the solution until they are uniformly coated, and put them on a plate to dry, occasionally stirring until the drying is completed. Keep the pills in a well-stopped bottle. PILULiE RHEI. Pills of Rhubarb. Rhubarb, in Soap, in fine Grains. Grammes. 300 19.50 100 6.50 400 26.00 To make one hundred pills 100 Beat them together with water so as to form a mass, and divide it into one hundred pills. PILULiE RHEI COMPOSITiE. U.S. Compound Pills of Rhubarb. Rhubarb, in No. 60 powder, two hundred grains Purified Aloes, in fine powder, one hundred and fifty grains . Oil of Peppermint, ten grains Grains. Grammes. 200 13.00 150 9.75 100 6.50 XO .65 460 29.90 To make one hundred pills 100 Beat them together with water so as to form a mass, and divide it into one hundred pills. Coating Pills.—Pills are coated with sugar, gelatin, silver leaf, gold leaf, or French chalk, with the view of masking their taste. The sugar-coating of pills is carried on upon a very large scale in this country. The pills are care- fully dried, placed in a round- bottomed copper pan, a mix- ture of syrup and starch added, the whole heated, and the pan kept moving constantly, so that a rotary motion is imparted. Whilst evaporation takes place, additions of syrup are made from time to time, so that a crust of sugar gradually forms upon the surface of each pill. Fig. 434 shows the form of pill- coater used by Allaire, Wood- ward & Co., of Peoria, Illinois. The rotary motion and heating of the copper pan are effected by the use of steam. A polish is given to the pills by agitating them in a bag or rolling them in a shaker in contact with a piece of wax or paraffin. Pills cannot be satisfactorily coated with sugar in the small way Machine for sugar-coating pills.