HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1660, 15 November 1887, Page 3

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

The ouitom of taking medicine in the form of pill* dates far back in history. The object is to enable us to swallow easily in a condensed form ditagreeable and nauseous, but very useful, drug*. To what vast dimensions pill* making has grown may be imagined when we say that in England alone about 2,000,000,000 (two thousand million) pills are consumed every year. In early days pills were made slowly by hand, as the demand was comparatively small. To-day they are produced with infinitely greater rapidity by machines especially contrived for the purpose, and with greater accuracy, too, in the proportions of the various ingredients employed, No form of medication ean be better than a pill, provided only it is intelligently prepared. But right here occurs the difficulty. Easy as it may seem to make a pill, or a million of them, there are really very few pills that can be honestly commended for popular use. Host of them either under* shoot 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 in the head, sides, and back, he rosy be sure his bowels ate constipated, and his liver sluggish, To remedy this unhappy state of things there is nothing liko a good cathartic pill. It will act like a charm by stimulating the liver into doing its duty, and ridding the digestive organa of tbe accumulated poisonous matter. But the good pill does not gripe and pain us, neither does it make us sick and miserable for a few hours or a whole day. lb acts on the entire glandular system at the same time, else the after-effects of the pill will be worse than the dieeaso itaelf. The griping earned by most pills is the result of irritating drugs which they contain. Such pills are harmful, and should never be used. They sometimes even produce hemorrhoids. _ Without having any particular desire to praise one pill aoove another, we may, nevertheleis. name Mother Seigd’s Pill#, manufactured by the wellknown house of A. J. White, Limited, 36, Farrington Road, London, and now sold by all the 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 oau»o the bowels to aot with ease and regularity. They never gripe or produce the (lightest sickness of tbe stomach, or any unpleasant feeling or symptom. Neither do they iuduoa further constipation, as nearly all other pills do. As a farther and crowning merit, Mother Seigel’s Pills are covered with a tasteless and harmless coating, which caucoa them to resemble pearls, thus rendering them as pleasant to palate as they are effective in curing disease. If you have a severe cold and are threatened a fever, with pains in the head, back, and limbs, one or two doses will break up the cold and prevent the fever. A coated tongue, with a brackish taste in tho mouth, is caused by fool matter in the stomach. A dose of Seigel’s Pills will effect a speedy _ cure. Oftentimes partially decayed food in the stomach and bowels produces sickness, nausea, &o. Cleanse the bowels with a dose of these pills, and good health will follow. Unlike many kinds of pills, they do not make you feel woree before you are better. They are, without doubt, tho beet family physio ever discovered. They remove all obstructions to tho natural functions in either eex without any unpleasant effects.