Category: Health & Medicine
THE IDEA of presenting medicine in candy form is really very old. The term confection, which originally meant a medicinal compound being derived from the Latin word "_conficere_," to put together, has been applied since the days of classical antiquity to mixtures of medicinal...
The doses given are children's doses, none of them exceeding a dose safe for a child three years of age. Most of the tablets carry as large a dose as can well be given in this w...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Mix the powdered sugar with the solution of malachite green; permit to dry. Add the fat starch and the spirit of gaultheria, and preserve in a well-stoppered bottle. Keep in a d...
4. CHAPTER IV.IT IS GENERALLY supposed that tablet making is an art, requiring special expertness and expensive machinery. Now while both of these ideas are correct when the preparation of a...
6. CHAPTER VI.THERE are quite a number of medicines sufficiently free from taste and odor to be made perfectly pleasant by the mere admixture of sugar and of flavoring. These can, of course,...
3. CHAPTER III.IT MAY seem strange that modern pharmacy which boasts of so many elegant and palatable preparations suitable for adults, has thus far done so little to render medicine more acce...
5. CHAPTER V.THE GROUNDLESSNESS of the second objection to tablet making by retail druggists, namely, the necessity of possessing expensive machinery, can perhaps best be shown by the illust...
1. CHAPTER I.THE IDEA of presenting medicine in candy form is really very old. The term confection, which originally meant a medicinal compound being derived from the Latin word "_conficere_...
2. CHAPTER II.3. To constitute a real advance in therapeutics, it must be possible for the average pharmacist to prepare them extemporaneously, so that the physician may be able to fit the me...