Candy Medication

by Bernard Fantus

Alternate Formula.

Arsenic trioxide	0.06	Gm.
Carmine	0.50	Gm.
Spirit of cinnamon, 10%	0.20	Cc.
Fat starch	3.60	Gm.
Sugar, powdered	14.40	Gm.

Having triturated the arsenic trioxide with the sugar, add the carmine and the spirit of cinnamon, and triturate again until the color is perfectly uniform. Then add the fat starch, triturating gently and for a short time only. Compress in a tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.18 Gm. tablets.

12. TABELLAE ATROPINAE DULCES.