HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 957, 4 July 1890, Page 20

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

The custom of taking medicine in the form of pills dates far back in history. Tho 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 baß grown may be imagined when we say that in England alone about 2,000,000,000 (two thousand million) pills are consumed every year. In early days pills were made slowly by hand, as the demand was comparatively small. To-day they are produced with infinitely greater rapidity by machines especially contrived for the purpose, and with greater accuracy too in the proportions of the various ingredients employed.

No 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 seein to make a pill, or a million of them, there are really very few pills that can bo honestly commended for popular use. Moat of them either undershoot or overshoot the mark. As everybody takes pills of some kind, it may be well to mention what a good, safe, and reliable pill should be. Now, when one feels dull and sleepy, and has more or less pain in tho head, aides, and back, he may be sure his bowels are constipated, and his liver sluggish. . To remedy this unhappy state of things there is nothing l.ke a good cathartic pill. It will act like a charm by stimulating the liver into doing its duty, and ridding the digestive organs of the accumulated prisonous matter.

But the good pill does not gripe and pain us, neither does it make us sick and miserable for a few hours or a whole day. It acts en the entire glandular system at tho same time, else the after-effectß of the pill will be worse than tbe disease itself. The griping oaused by most pills is the result of irritating drugs whioh 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, we may, neverthele-s, name Mother Seigel’s Pills, manufactured by the well known huuse of A. J. White, Limited, 35, Farringdon Road, London, and now sold by all chemists and medicine vendors, as the only one we know of that actually possesses every desirable quality. They remove the pressure upon the brain, correct the liver, and cause the bowels to act with ease and r-gnlarity. They never gripe or pioduce the slightest sickness of the stomach, or any other uupleasant feeling rr symptom. Neither do they induce further constipation, as nearly all other pills do. As a further and crowning merit, Mother Seigel’s Pills are covered with a tasteless and harmless coating, which causes them to resemble pearls, thus randerir.g them as pleasant to the palate as they are effective in curing disease. If yon have a severe cold and are threatened with a fever, with pains in the bead, back, and limbs, one or two doses will h-oak n.n tbe cold and prevent the fever. A coated longue, with a brackish taste in the mouth is caused by foul matter in the stomach. A done 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, and good health will follow. Unlike many kinds of pills, they do not make you feel worse before you are better They are, without doubt, tho boat family physic ever discovered. They remove all obstructions to the natural functions in either sex without any unpleasant effects.