HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3511, 15 May 1890, Page 4

HOW PILLS ARE MADE.

The custom of taking medicine in tho form of pills dates far bid: in history. The object is to enable us to swallow easily in a condensed form disagreeable nnd ntiuseuß, but vory useful drugs. To what vast dimensions pill-taking has grown may be imagined when wo say thatinEngtandaloneabout2,oo(),ooo,ooo two thousand million) pills arecnnsumed every year. In early days pills woro made slowly by hand, as the demnndwaa comparatively email. To-day they aro produced with infinitely greater rapidity by machines especially contrived for tho " purposo, and with greater accuracy, too, in tho proportions of the various ingred-

ients employed. No form of medication can be bettor than a pill, provided only it is intelligently prepared. But right here occurs tho difficulty, Easy as it may seem to make a pill, or n million of them, thero aro really very few pills that can be honestly commended for popular use. Most of them either undershoot or overshoot the mark. As ovorybody takea "■ pills of 601110 kind, it may bo Well to montion what a good,'safe aud relirMa ..- pil! should be. Now, when one \fjtk dull and sleepy, and ha> moreor vJHfc paininthe head, sides, and back, Tiff may be sure his bowols aro constipated . and his liver sluggish. To remedy this unhappy state of things there is nothing like a rood cathartic pill, It will • act like a charm: by stimulating the liver into doing its duty, and ridinp the diaestivo organs of the accumulated poisonous matter.

But the good pill does not gripo and pain us, neithor Joes it mrAvpYßiok and miserable for a fow hours, THJffrliolo day- It acts on the entire glandular system at tho samo time, elso the after ~vt effects of the pill will bo worsß than tho " disease itself. The griping earned by most pills' is the result of irritating drugs which they contain. Such pills we harmful, and should never bo used. They sometimes even produce hemorrhoids. Without having any particular desire to praise ono pill above another, we may, nevertheless, namoMothorSeigeU'sPills, manufactured by the well-known house of A. J, White, Limited, 35, Fnrrlngdon Road, London, and now sold by all chemists wd medicine vondors, as the only ono we know ot that actaally possesses evory deiirable quality. Tnoy remove tho pressure upon the brain, correct the liver, and causa tho bowels to act with case and regularity, They rover gripe or produce the slightest sickness of the stomach, or any other unpleasant feeling or symptom, Neither do they .•'< induce further constipation, bb nearly other pills do. As a turthorand crowning merit, Mother Saigell's Pills aro covered with a tastcloss and harmless coating, which causes them to resomblo pearls, thus rondonug them as pleasant to the palato as they are effective in citrine, diseases. If you 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 and prevent tho (over. A coated tonguo, \ with a brackish taste in the mouth,

caused by foul matter in the stomach, A doso of Seigel's Pills will effect a speedy cute. Oftentimes partially decayed food in the stomaoh andbowlea produces eicknoss, nausea, &o. Cleanse the bowels with a dose of these pills, and good health will follow, Unliko many kinds of pills, they do not uinko you feel worse before you are better. They aro, without doubt, the best family physic oyer discovered, They remove all obstructions to the uature. functions withoutanyunpleastntofiects,