Mix the heroine hydrochloride with the alcoholic solution of saccharin (in a hot mortar if in a hurry) and permit the alcohol to evaporate; then add the vanilla cacao sugar. Triturate thoroughly; and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets.

Note:—If any difficulty is found in the compressing of these tablets, the addition of a small amount of shaved paraffin will overcome it.

Alternate Formula.

Heroine hydrochloride 0.06 Gm.
Saccharin0.06 Gm.
Sodium bicarbonate1.00 Gm.
Tincture of vanilla1.50 Cc.
Cacao powder3.00 Gm.
Sugar, powdered26.00 Gm.

Mix the saccharin with the tincture of vanilla; then add the heroine hydrochloride. Permit the alcohol to evaporate. Thoroughly triturate with the sugar, added in portions. Finally add the sodium bicarbonate and the cacao powder; and triturate again until the color is uniform. Compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets.

Note:—See note under above formula.

30. TABELLAE HEXAMETHYLENAMINAE DULCES

Sweet Tablets of Hexamethylenamine (Urotropin).

0.03 Gm. (gr. 1/2).

As much as 0.06 Gm. (gr. 1) may be given in this form.