HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1926, 10 May 1888, Page 4

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

The Custom of taking medicine in tho form of pills dates far back in history. The object is to enable us to swallow easily in a condensed form disagreeable and nauseous, but very useful, drugs. To what vast dimensions pill-taking has grown may be imagined when we say that iv En<;ln hd nlone about 2,000,000,000 (two thousand million) pills are consumed evi-iy '.car. In early days pills were iiiti.li- Slowly by hand, as the demand was com i.;ii a lively small. To-day lhey_ arc Ti-odiurd with infinitely greater rapidity by machine especially contrived for the purpose, and with greater accuracy, too, in the pioportions of the various ingredients employed. JS o form of medication can be better than a pill, provided only it is intelligently prepared. But right here occurs the difficulty. Easy as it may seem to make a pill, or a million of them, there are really very few pills that can be honestly commended for popular use. Most of them either undershoot or over" shoot the mark. As everybody takes pills of some kind, it may be well to mention what a good, safe, reliable pill should be. Now, when one feels dull and sleepy, and has more or less pain in the head, 3ides, and back, he may be sure his bowels are constipated, and his liver sluggish To remedy this unhappy state of things there is nothing like a i;ood cathartic pill. It will act like ail i arm by stimulating the liver into doing its duty, and ridding the digestive organs of the accumulated poisonous matter. But the good pill doeß not gripe and pain us, neither does it make us sii-l» and miserable for a few hours or a whole day. It acts on the entire glandular system at the same time, else the after-eflec-t> of the pill will be worse than the disease itself. The griping caxised by most pills is the result of irritating drugs w liich they contain Such pills are harmful, and should never be used. They sometimes even produce hemorrhoids. "Without having any particular desire to praise one pill above another, ,wc may, nevertheless, name Mother Seigel's Pills, manufactured by the well-known lioiw of A. J. White, Limited, 35, Farringdon Kernel, London, and now sold by all ch< mists and medicine vendors, as the only one we of that actually possesses every dtsii.ible quality. Ihey remove the pressure upon the brain, correct the liver, and eau*c tho bowels to act with, ease and regularity. They never gripe or produce the slightest sickness of the stomach, or any^ other unpleasant feeling or symptom. Keither do they induce further constipation as nearly 'all other pills do. As, further and crowning merit, Mother Seigel's Pills are covered with a tasteless and harmlcsi coating, which causes them to resemble pearls, thus rendering them as plcasanr to the palat" ns they are effective in cuting disease '-» l?f you have a severe cold and are threatened with a fever, with pains in the head, back, and limbs, one or two doses will break up the cold and prevent the fever. A coated tongue, with a brackish taste in the mouth, i« caused by foul matter in the stomach. 1 dose of Seigel's Pills will effect a speedy cure. Oftentimes partially decayed food in the stomach and bowels produces sickness, nausea, &c. Cleanse the bowels with a dose of these pills, aud good health will follow.

Unlike many kinds of pills, they do not make you feel worse before you are better. They arc, without doubt, the best family physic ever discovered They remove all obstructions to the natural fimctions in cither sex without any unpleasant effects. J