Choice of Flavor.
THERE are quite a number of medicines sufficiently free from taste and odor to be made perfectly pleasant by the mere admixture of sugar and of flavoring. These can, of course, be prepared with any flavor desired. In the formulary, rose has been chosen as the flavor under these circumstances, but any other flavor may be used instead.
Substances that have a slightly acrid taste are generally best disguised by peppermint. For sour taste, lemon is best. Wintergreen was chosen as the flavor for salicylates.
Substances that have a slightly bitter taste are best disguised by "vanilla cacao sugar." For drugs that, in addition to a slightly bitter taste, have an odor that needs disguising, "cinnamon cacao sugar" is to be preferred.