HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8794, 2 June 1890, Page 4

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Tbe custom of taking medicine in the form of pills dates far back in history. The object is to enable as to swallow easily in a condensed form disagreeable and nauseous, bat very useful drags. To what vast a intensions pill-taking has grown may be imagined when we say thai 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 the purpose, aud with greater accuracy, too, in the proportions of the various ingredents employed.

No form of medication can be bettor than a pill, provided only it is intelligently prepared. But right here occars the difficnlty. Easy as it may seem to make a pill, or a million of them, there aro really very few pills that can be honestly commended for popular ase. 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 feelß dull and sleepy and has more or less pain in tbe head, sides, and back, he may be sure bis bowels are constipated, and bis liver sluggish* To remedy tbis cnbappy state of things there is nothing like a good cathartic pill- It will act like a charm by stimulating the liver into doing its duty, and ridding the digestive organß of tbe accumulated poisonooß matter.

But the good pill does not gripe and pain us, neither does it'make as sick and miserable for a few hours or a whole day. It acts on an entire glandular system at the same time, else the after effects of the pill will be worse than the disease itself. The griping caused by most pills is the resalt of irritating drugs which they contain. Sach 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, nevertheless, came Mother Seigel's Pill?, manufactured by the well-known house of A. J. White, Limited, 35, Farriugdon Road, London, and now sold by all chemists and medicine vendors, as the only medicine we know of that actually possesses every desirable quality. They remove the messure upon the brain, correct the liver, and cause the bowels to act with ease and regularity. They never gtipe or produce the slightest eiobness of the stomach, or any other unpleasant feeling or symptom. Neither do they induce further constipation, as nearly all other pills do, As a farther sn i crowning merit, Mother Beimel's Pills are covered with a tasteless and harmless coating, which causes them to resemble pearls thas rendering them as pleasant to the palate as they are effective in curing disease. If you have a severe oold and are threatened with a fever, with pains in the bead, book, and limbs, one or two doses will break up tbe cold and prevent the fever. A coated tongue, with a brackish moutb, is caused by foul matter in the stomach. A dose of Seigel's Pills will effect a speedy cure, Oftentimeu partially decayed food in tbe stomach and bowels produces sickness, nanseu, &c. Cleanse the bowels with a doee of these pills, and good health will follow.

Unlike mans kinds of pills, they do not make jou feel worse before jou are better. They are, without doubt, the best family physio ever discovered , They remove all obstructions to the natural functions in either sex without any unpleasant effects.

A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA. Mb* William Buchanan, No. 8, St, Jobn's-road. Kirkdale, Liverpool, has been ergineer in the Canard Steamship Company's service for twenty years. He states that for eightoen months he was I troubled with most distressing neuralgia pains in his head. The most eminent physicians, although they were united us to the cause, could not afford relief, and declared bis cos© incurable. Ho resigned bis position on account of his sufferings, and at lant, on the advice of his friends, tried St. Jacobs oil. The first bottle, be Bays, gave him great relief, and the second cured him. He is now following bi3 employment, aud is as well as ever. This remarkable statement was made to Mr. Joseph Gill, manager for Messrs. Budden and Co., Chemists, No. 399, Kirkdale, Liyorpool. Mr Gill says Mr Buchanan's pains were sometimes so excruciuting, that he had to be held down in bed by two men, and beaddß that Mr. Buchanan's statement is simply one of the many expressions which the firm receive daily from customers as to the benefit which they have derived from the übb of St. Jacobs oil, the Conqueror of pain, especially when suffering from rheumatism or neuralgia.