In mixing these, as well as all other medicated lozenges, the different powders should be well mixed with the sugar, in order that each lozenge may have its due portion. If this is not attended to, the perfect distribution of the component parts cannot be depended on, and one lozenge may contain double or treble the quantity of medicated matter it ought to have, whilst others contain comparatively none; therefore, those that have the greatest portion may often prove injurious by acting contrary to what was intended.
Brilliants.—Take either of the pastes for peppermint lozenges from Nos. 1 to 4, and cut into small fancy devices, such as hearts, diamonds, spades, triangles, squares, etc.
Catechu Lozenges.—Sugar four pounds, catechu twelve ounces. Make into a paste with dissolved gum.
Catechu a l'Ambergris.—To the paste for catechu lozenges add sixteen grains of musk.
Catechu with Orange-Flowers.—As before, adding twelve drops of essence of neroli.
Catechu with Violets.—As before, adding Florence orris root, in powder, three drachms. These are all used to fasten the teeth, and disguise an offensive breath.
Ching's Brown Worm Lozenges.—Calomel washed in spirits of wine (termed white panacea of mercury) seven ounces, resin of jalap three pounds eight ounces, fine sugar nine pounds, dissolved gum sufficient quantity to make a paste. Each lozenge should contain half a grain of mercury.
Panacea one ounce, resin of jalap two ounces, sugar two pounds. Dissolve a sufficient quantity of gum in rose-water to make a paste. Make 2,520 lozenges, weighing eight grains each, and containing a quarter of a grain of calomel and half a grain of jalap.
These lozenges should be kept very dry after they are finished, as the damp, acting on the sugar and mercury, generates an acid in them.