Candy Medication

by Bernard Fantus

Alternate Formula.

Red mercuric iodide	0.10	Gm.
Spirit of cinnamon, 10%	0.20	Cc.
Carmine	0.50	Gm.
Fat starch	3.60	Gm.
Sugar, powdered	13.80	Gm.

Having thoroughly triturated the red mercuric iodide with the sugar, add the carmine and the spirit of cinnamon and triturate again. 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.

35. TABELLAE HYOSCINAE DULCES.