HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 3, 16 May 1890, Page 31

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

The custom of taking medicine in the form of pills dates far back in history. The object is to enable us to swallow easily in a condensed form disagreeable and nauseous, but very useful drugs. To what vas dimensions pill-taking has grown may be imagined when we say tha n 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 con r rivea for the purpose, and with greater accuracy, too, in the propo tion 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 seem fo 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 as 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 the head, sides, and back, he may be sure his 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 charm by stimulating the liver int doing its duty, and ridding the digestive organs of the accumulated poisonous matter.

Bat 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. Tt acts on the entire glandulur system at the same time, else the after-effect 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 sometimes even produce hemorrhoids. Without having any particular desire o praise one pill above another, we may, nevertheless, name Mother Seigel's Pill's manufactured by the well-known housu of A. J. White Lin i ted, 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 regularity . They never gripe or produce the slighest sickness of the stomach, or any other unpleasant feeling or sympton. Neither do they induce further constipation, as nearly all other ills do. Ah a further and crowning merit, Mother Seigel's 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 pains in the head, back, and limbs, one or two doses will break up tbe cold and prevent the fever. A doated tongue, with a brackish taste in the mouth, is caused by foul matter in The stomach. A dose of Seigel's Pills will effect a speedy cure Oftentimes partially decayed food in the stomach and bowels produces sickness, nausea, etc. OleanßC the bowels with a dose o| these pillß, and^good health will follow,