Mix by thorough trituration in a mortar and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets.
Alternate Formula.
| Mercury with chalk | 3.00 | Gm. |
| Spirit of peppermint | 0.60 | Cc. |
| Fat starch | 6.00 | Gm. |
| Sugar, powdered | 21.00 | Gm. |
Mix the ingredients, with the exception of the fat starch, by thorough trituration in a mortar; add the latter by gentle trituration for a short time only; and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets.
33. TABELLAE HYDRARGYRI IODIDI FLAVI DULCES.
Sweet Tablets of Yellow Mercurous Iodide.
0.003 Gm. (gr. 1/20).
Larger dose could be administered in this form.
These tablets must be well protected against light or they will rapidly become dark; when thus protected, they keep fairly well.