HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8833, 17 July 1890, Page 4

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Tho custom of taking medicine in tbe form of pills dates far back in history. The object is to enablo 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 arecoDSumed every year. In early days pills were made slowly by hand, as the demand was comparatively small. To-day they are produced with iunnitely greater rapidity by machines specially contrived for the purpose, and with greater accuracy, too, in the proportions of the various ingredents employed. No form of- medication can be better than a pill, provided only it in 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 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 und sleepy and haß more or less pain in the head, sides, and back, he may be sure Mb bowels are constipated, and his liver sluggish* To remedy this unhappy state of things there is nothing like a good cathartic pill. It will act like a ohaim by stimulating the liver into doing its duty, and ridding the digesiive organs of the accumulated poisonous 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 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 result of irritating drugs whioh they contain. Such pills are harmful, and should nevor be used. They sometimes even produce hemorrhoids. Without having any particular desire to praise one pill above another, we may, nevertheless, Dame Mother Seigel's Fills, manufactured by the well-known house of A. J. White, Limited, 35, Farringdon 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 pressure upon the bruin, correct the liver, and cause the 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. Neither do they induce furthur constipation, as nearly all other pills do. As a further and crowning merit, Mother Seigel'B Pills are covered with a tasteless and harmless coating, which causes them to resemble pearls thus rendering them as pleasant to the palate as they are effective in curing disease. If you have a severe cold and are threatened with a fever, with painß 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 mouth, is caused by foul matter ia the stomach. A dose of Seigel's Pille will effect a speedy cure. Oftentimes partially decayed food iv 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 jou feel worse before jou are better. They are, without douOt, the best family physic ever discovered . They remove all obstructions to the natural functions in either sex without any unpleasant effects.