HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8754, 16 April 1890, Page 4

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

The custom of taking medicine in tho form of pills dates far back in hietory. 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 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 specially contrived for tho purpose, aud with greater accuracy, too, in the proportions of the various ingredents employed. No form of medication can bo better than a pill, provided only it is intelligently prepared. But right here occurs tho difficulty. Easy us it may seem to make a pill, or a million of them, there are really vary few pills that can bo honestly commended for popular use. Most 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 Bleepy and has more or lees pain in the bead, sides, and back, he may be sure his bowels are constipated, and his liver sluggish* To remedy this unhappy Btate of things there is nothing like a good cathartic pill. It will act like a charm by stimulating tho liver into doing its duty, and ridding the digestive organs of the accumulated poisonous matter. But the good pill does not gripe and pain us. neither does it^uuake us sick and miserable for a few hours or a whole day. It acts oa an entire glandular system at the sume time, else the after effects of the pill will be worse than the disease itself. The griping caused by most pills is the result of irritating drugs which they contain. Such pills are harmful, and should never be used. They Bometimes even produce hemorrhoids. Without having any particular desire to praise one pill übovo another, we may, nevertheless, name Mother Seigel's Pill?, manufactured by the well-known house of A. J. White, Limited, 35, Farriagdon Road, London, and now sold by all chemUts and medicino vendors, ns the only medicine we know of that actually possesses every desirablo quality. They roraovo tho Dressuro upon tbo brain, correct tho liver, and caueo tho bowels to act with ease and regularity. They never giipo or produce tho slightest sickness of tho Btomacb, or any other unpleasant feeling or symptom. Neither do thoy induce further constipatioa, as nearly all other pills do. As a further and crowning merit, Mother Heigel's' Pills are covered with a tasteless and harmless coating, which causes them to resemble pearls thus rendering them as pleasant to the paluto us they are effective in curing disease. If you have a severo cold and arc threatened with a fever, with pains in the head, back, and limbs, one or two doses will break up tho cold and prevent tho fever. £l coated tongue, with a brackish mouth, is causod by foul matter in the stomach. A dose of Seigel'B Pills will effect a speedy cure. Oftentimes partially decayed food iv the stomach and bowels produces sickness, nuusea, &c. Cleanso the bowels with a dose of theso pills, and good health will follow. Unlike many hinds of pills, thoy do not make jou feel worse before you arc better. They are, without douot, the best family physic ever discovered . Thoy remove all obstructions to the natural functions in cithor sex without any unpleasant effects .