Mix the alcoholic solution of saccharin with the caffeine (in a hot mortar if in a hurry) and permit the alcohol to evaporate. Then mix with the vanilla cacao sugar and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets.
Alternate Formula.
| Caffeine (alkaloid) | 0.60 | Gm. |
| Saccharin | 0.12 | Gm. |
| Tincture of vanilla | 1.50 | Cc. |
| Cacao powder | 3.00 | Gm. |
| Sugar, powdered | 26.30 | Gm. |
Mix the saccharin with the tincture of vanilla, then add the caffeine and finally the other ingredients, and triturate until they are thoroughly mixed. Compress in tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets.
16. TABELLAE CARBONIS LIGNI DULCES.
Sweet Tablets of Charcoal.
0.18 Gm. (gr. 3).
| Charcoal, finely powdered | 18.00 | Gm. |
| Alcoholic solution of saccharin, 3% | 3.00 | Cc. |
| Alcohol | 15.00 | Cc. |
| Extract of glycyrrhiza, powdered | 3.00 | Gm. |
| Spirit of anise, 10% | 1.00 | Cc. |
| Spirit of coriander, 10% | 0.50 | Cc. |
| Cacao butter, in thin shavings | 1.50 | Gm. |
| Sugar, powdered | 7.50 | Gm. |
Mix all the ingredients except the cacao butter by thorough trituration (in a warm mortar if in a hurry), permit the alcohol to evaporate completely; then incorporate the cacao butter by gentle trituration for a short time only. Compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets.