Mild mercurous chloride 0.60 Gm.
Pink fat sugar17.40 Gm.

Mix 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.

Mild mercurous chloride 0.60 Gm.
Carmine0.10 Gm.
Spirit of rose, 1%0.40 Cc.
Fat starch3.60 Gm.
Sugar, powdered14.40 Gm.

Having thoroughly triturated the mild mercurous chloride with the sugar, add the carmine and the spirit of rose; and triturate again until the pink color is perfectly uniform. Then add the fat starch by 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.

32. TABELLAE HYDRARGYRI CUM CRETA DULCES.

Sweet Tablets of Mercury with Chalk.

0.03 Gm. (gr. 1/2.).

Larger dose could be administered in this form.

Mercury with chalk 3.00 Gm.
White fat sugar27.00 Gm.