HOW PILLS ARE MADETba custom of taking medicine in the form df pills dates far back in history. The cbjcta is to enable as to swallow easily in a ooudenced form disagreeable and tauteous, bat very usefol, dings. To what vast dimensions pilltaking baa grown may be imagined when wo say that in England about 2,0ti0,000,G00 (two thousand million) pills are consumed every year. In early days pills were made alowlyby hand, as the demand was comparatively tmall. Today they are produced with infinitely greater rapidity by machines especially con trived for th<> purpose, and with greater accuracy, too, in the proportions ol tbs various Ingredientr employe . No form ol medication can be letter than a {>iU| provided oo y it U IqfcUlgeaUy propped*
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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 10, 24 November 1887, Page 3
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124Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 10, 24 November 1887, Page 3
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