Sweet Tablets of Antimony and Potassium Tartrate (Tartar Emetic).
0.0006 Gm. (gr. 1/100).
Caution:—Only a moderate number of these tablets should be ordered at one time, 0.030 Gm. having produced death in children. It would take fifty of these tablets, however, to yield such dose. Larger dose might be administered in this form.
| Antimony and potassium tartrate | 0.06 Gm. |
| Red fat sugar | 18.00 Gm. |
Mix by thorough trituration in a mortar and compress in tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.18 Gm. tablets.
Alternate Formula.
| Antimony and potassium tartrate | 0.06 | Gm. |
| Carmine | 0.50 | Gm. |
| Spirit of cinnamon, 10% | 0.20 | Cc. |
| Fat starch | 3.60 | Gm. |
| Sugar, powdered | 14.40 | Gm. |
Having thoroughly triturated the antimony and potassium tartrate with the sugar, add the coloring and the flavoring; and triturate again until the color is perfectly uniform. 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.
8. TABELLAE ANTIPYRINAE DULCES.