HOW PILLS ARE MADE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1925, 22 August 1888, Page 3

HOW PILLS ARE MADE

The Custom of taking medicine m the form of pills dates far back m history. The object is to enable us to swallow easily m a condensed form disagreeable and nauseous, but very useful, drugs. To what vast dimensions pilltaking has grown may be imagined, when we say that m England alone about 2,000,000,000 (two thousand million) pills a»-e consumed every year. In early days pills were ma^e slowly by hand, as the demand was comparatively small. To-day they are produced with infinitely greater rapidity by machines especially ( ontrived for the purpose, and with greater accuracy, too, m the proportions of the various ingredients employed. No form ot medication can be better than a pill, provided only it is intelligently prepared. But right here occurs the difficulty. Easy as it I may seem to make a pill, or a million of them, j there are really very few pills that can be honestly commended for popular use, Most of them either undershoot or overshoot the mark . As everybody takes pills of some kind, it may be well to mention what a good, safe, and 'reliable pill should be. Now, when one feels dull and sleepy, and has more or less pain m the head, sides, and back, he may be sure bis bowels are constipated, and his liver sluggish. To remedy this unhappy state of things there is nothing like a good cathartic pill. It will act like a charm by stimulating the liver into doing its duly, and ridding the digestive organs of the accumulated poisonous matter. But the gocd pill does not gripe and pain us, neither does it make us sick and miserable for a few hours or a whole o*ay. It acts on the entire glandular system at the same time, else the after-affects of the pill will be worse than the disease itself. Tne griping caused by most piils is the result of irritating drugs which they contain. Such p'lls are harmful, and should never be used. They sometimes even produce hertioirhoids. Without having any particular desire to praise one pill above another, we may, nevertheless, name Mother Seigel's Pills, manufactured by the well-known house of A. J. White, Limited, 35, Farringdon RoaJ, London, and now sold by all chemists and medicine vendors, as the only one we know of that actually possesses every desirable quality. They remove the pressure upon the brain, correct the liver, and cause the bowels to act with ease and regularity. They never gripe or produce the slightest sickness of the stomach, or any other unpleasant feeling or symptom. Neither do they induce further constipation, as nearly all o'her pills do. As a further and crowning merit, Mother Seigel's Pills are covered with a tasteless and harmless coating, which causes them to resemble pearls, thus rendering them as pleasant to the palare as ihey are effective m curing disease. If you have a severe cold and are threatened with a fever, with pains m the head, back and limbs, one or two dfcses will break up tlie cold and prevent the ftver. A coated tongue, with a brackish taste m the mouth is caused by foul matter m the stomach. A dose of Seigel's Pills will effect a speedy cure. Of ten-tunes partially decayed food m the stomach and bowels, produces sickness, nausea, etc. Cleanse the bowels with a good dose of these pills and good health will follow. Unlike many kinds of {.ills, they do not make you feel worse before you are better. They are, without doubt, the best family physic ever discovered. They remove all obstructions to the natural functions m either sex without any unpleasant effects.