Sweet Tablets of Arsenic Trioxide.
0.0006 Gm. (gr. 1/100).
Caution:—Owing to the toxicity of arsenic trioxide not more than a small number should be ordered at one time.
Larger doses could be administered in this form.
| Arsenic trioxide | 0.06 Gm. |
| Red fat sugar | 18.00 Gm. |
Mix the arsenic trioxide with the red fat sugar by thorough 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.
Alternate Formula.
| Arsenic trioxide | 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 triturated the arsenic trioxide with the sugar, add the carmine and the spirit of cinnamon, 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.
12. TABELLAE ATROPINAE DULCES.