Sweet Tablets of Red Mercuric Iodide.

0.001 Gm. (gr. 1/60).

Caution:—Only a moderate number of these tablets should be ordered at one time.

Larger dose of red mercuric iodide could be administered in this form.

Red mercuric iodide 0.10 Gm.
Red fat sugar18.00 Gm.

Thoroughly mix the red mercuric iodide with the red fat sugar by trituration in a mortar; and compress in a tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.18 Gm. tablets.