HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2051, 27 May 1890, Page 1

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

The custom of taking medicine in the form of pills dates far back in history. The object is to enable us to swallow easily in a condensed form disagreeable and nauseous, but very useful, drugs. To what vast dimensions pill-taking 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 can 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 aro really very few pills that can be honestly recommended 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 wbat a good, safe, and reliable pill should be. Now, when one iesls dull and sleepy, and haa more or loss pain in the head, sides and back, he may be sure bit bowels are constipated, and hio 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 lives into doing its duty, tnd ridding the digestive organs of the 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. It acts on the entire glandular system at the same time, else the after effects of the pill will bo worse than the disease itself. The griping caused by roost 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 above another, we may, nevertheless, name Mother Seigel’s Fills, manufactured by the well-known house of A.J. White, Limited, 35, Earringdon Road.London.and now sold by Sail chemists and medicine vendors, as the only one we know of that actually possesses every desirable quality. They remove the

presshre upon the brain, correct; the liver, and cause the bowels to aotwith ease and regularity. They never gripe or produce the ■lightest sickness of the stomach, or any , other unpleasant feeling or symptom, Neither do they induce further constipation, as nearly all Mother pills do. As a further and crowning merit, Mother Seigel’a Pills are covered with a tasteless and harmless j coating: which causes them to resemble pearls, thus rendering them as pleasant, to the palate as they are effective | in* daring disease. If yon have a severe cold, and are threatened with 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 the month is earned by foul matter in the stomach. A dose of Seigel’s Fills will effect a speedy cure. Often-times partially decayed food in the stomach and bowels produces sickness, nausea, &o. Cleanse the bowels with a good dose of these pills, and good health will follow. Unlike many kinds of Pills, they do not make yon feel worse before you are better. They are, without doubt, the best family physio ever discovered. They remove all obstructions to the natural functions in either sex without any unpleasant effects.