HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Western Star, Issue 1385, 31 August 1889, Page 4

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

The Custom of taking medicine in <he form of pills dates far bajk in history. Tue object is to enable us to swallow easily in a condensed form disagreeable and nauseous, but very useful, drugs. To what vast diinensioHs 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 especially contrived for the purpose, and with greater accuracy, too, in the proportions of the various ingredients employed. No f«vni of medication can be better than a, pi.l, provided only it is intelligently piepared. But right here occurs the. difficulty. Kaej 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 overshoot the mark. As everybody takes pills of some kind, it may be well to mention what a good, safe, an d reliable pill should be. Now, when one feels dull and sleepy, and has more or less pain in the head, sides, and back, he may be sure his bowels are constipated, aud his liver sluggish. To remedy this unhappy 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 organs of the accumulated poisonous matter. But. the good pill does uot gripe and pain us, neither does it make us sick and miserable for a few hours or a whole clay. It acts on the 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 pill." is the result of irrita'.ii g drugs wh'cb they contain. Such pills are harmful and shoi.U never be used. Tliey sometimes even pr. duce hemorrhoids. Without having any particular desire to praise one pill above another, we may, never!hoicss, noma Mother Si igei'* Pills?, mihufactured by the well-known house, of A. J. White, Limited, 35, Farringdon Road, London, oud now sold by nil chemists and mo-iicine vendors, as the only one we know of tout actually possesses every doirable quality. Tuev remove the pressure upon the brain, 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. Neithre do tlmy induce further constipation, as nearly all other pills do. As a further and crowning merit, Mother Seigel's P.lis are covered with a tasteless and harmless coating, which causes them to resemble pearls, thus rendering them as pleasant to the palate as thoy aro effective in curing disease. If you ha*e a severe cold and are threatened with a fever, with pains in the head, back and limb?, one or two doses will break up the cold and prevent the fever. A coal el tongue with n brackish taste in the mouth is caused by ioul matter iu the stomach. A dose of Seigel's Fills will effect a speedy cure. Oftentimes paitiaily Decayed fojd in the stomach and bow e:s produi es sickness, nausi a, &e. Cleanse the bowels witii a dose of these Pills, and goodhealth will follow. Unlike many kinds of pills, they do not make you led worse before you are better. Thry a-e without, doubt the best■ family pbysic ever discovered. They remove all obstructions to the natural functions in either sex without any unpleasant efLVcts.