NASTIER MEDICINES
WITHOUT SUGAR OR GLYCERINE. A new w.ir-timo pharmacopoeia came inio force in England on December 1. This consists of some 120 medicinal preparations which formerly contained sugar or glycerine, but now are compounded without cither. Glycerine is required for explosives and sugar must bo saved. Doctors prescribe the new preparations under the old j na ; merely adding the letters, "W.E.F. (War Emergency Formulary). The substitutes most commonly fcmployod in place of sugar are glucose and "artificial syrup," which contains chloroform as a sweetening and preserving agent. In some casos, as, for instance, coclliver oil emulsion, the sugar is left out altogether without, any substitute. Another popular drug—compound liquorice powder—which' contained _ one-half its weight of sugar, now contains none, but is brought to its former strength by moans of rice starch. Some of the new medicines are less palatable.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 97, 17 January 1918, Page 6
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140NASTIER MEDICINES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 97, 17 January 1918, Page 6
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