Triturate the spirit of nitroglycerin with the red fat sugar and permit the alcohol to evaporate. When thoroughly dry, compress in a tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.18 Gm. tablets.
Alternate Formula.
| Spirit of nitroglycerin, 1% | 3.00 | Cc. |
| Spirit of cinnamon, 10% | 0.20 | Cc. |
| Carmine | 0.50 | Gm. |
| Fat starch | 3.60 | Gm. |
| Sugar, powdered | 14.40 | Gm. |
Triturate the carmine with the spirit of cinnamon and the sugar, until the color is perfectly uniform. Then add the spirit of nitroglycerin, and triturate again thoroughly but gently. Finally incorporate the fat starch by gentle trituration for a short time only; and compress in a tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.18 Gm. tablets.
29. TABELLAE HEROINAE DULCES.
Sweet Tablets of Heroine.
0.0006 Gm. (gr. 1/100).
Caution:—Owing to the toxicity of heroine only a small number of these tablets should be ordered at one time.
| Heroine hydrochloride | 0.06 | Gm. |
| Alcoholic solution of saccharin, 3% | 2.00 | Cc. |
| Sodium bicarbonate | 1.00 | Gm. |
| Vanilla cacao sugar | 29.00 | Gm. |