Sodium bicarbonate6.00 Gm.
Spirit of peppermint 0.60 Cc.
Fat starch6.00 Gm.
Sugar, powdered18.00 Gm.

Mix the sodium bicarbonate with the sugar and the spirit of peppermint by thorough trituration in a mortar. Then incorporate fat starch 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.

50. TABELLAE STROPHANTHINI DULCES.

Sweet Tablets of Strophanthin.

0.00003 Gm. (gr. 1/2000).

Caution:—Only a small number of these tablets should be ordered at one time.

Strophanthin trituration, 10%0.03 Gm.
Alcoholic solution of saccharin, 3% 2.00 Cc.
Vanilla cacao sugar30.00 Gm.

Mix the strophanthin trituration with alcoholic solution of saccharin (in a hot mortar if in a hurry); and permit the alcohol to evaporate. Add the vanilla cacao sugar and triturate thoroughly. Compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets.

Alternate Formula.