Alternate Formula.

Mercury with chalk3.00 Gm.
Spirit of peppermint 0.60 Cc.
Fat starch6.00 Gm.
Sugar, powdered21.00 Gm.

Mix the ingredients, with the exception of the fat starch, by thorough trituration in a mortar; add the latter by gentle trituration for a short time only; and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets.

33. TABELLAE HYDRARGYRI IODIDI FLAVI DULCES.