The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-04
MEDICINES IN TABLETS.
"A Compact Form for Prescriptions
That Has Grown Much I'm Favor.

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New York Evening Post.
A few years ago there began 20 be felt
IN TIE drug world a demand from physl-
chans Tor medicines Ia A compact and
portahis form. Doctors do not "a IN tho
old DAYS. carry drug stores IN saddle-baxs.
bat even now. and 20 a much greater ex-
tent than IL generally realized they d.
rectly supply their patients with the rem
edses they prescribe: and. moreover. there
are evidences that this practice Is iucreaz-
Ing. 70 that something OF a reyersi0n In
this particular 10 backwoosis days Is by
10 means out % the question Certainly
the return Ia foatered and facilitated by
the manner Ia which the large manufact-
urlng druggists have met the demand men
toned above. They began putting up ire
tablet form the medicines best adapted
for that treatment. and finding that this
form bad a ready acceptance. they applied
the method TO less promising remedies.
Whatever superficial difficulties present
et themselves were quickly overcome by
a hltie study. and IL il now asserted that
there Is scarcely any medicine which Is
rot capable Of reduction 70 tablet form.
Having reached this c0uFiction, and per
esiviug that the popularity of the tablet
Increases rather than waues, the manu-
fncturers have gone on putting one remedy
after another into this shape until they
now publish interminable catalogues OF
their products. Not only have simple
agents been 50 reduced. but all the famous
prescriptions Of eminent physicians are
now put zap in this way.
The reasons why tablets are driving out
OF The drug trade ppwders and liquids are
not far 10 seek. fhS tablet T. the most
condensed form in which medicine can be
put up for administrator. AMI therefore
requires less space than any other To tho
physician having medicines IN his ofice or
carrying them on his visits IL is a god
UH a. Ha.aa n.r~
ita immunity from unpleasant breakages.
There is no liquid. mal03orous or staining.
or corrosive. 20 issue from broken reccp-
tacle and spoil is appearance and COM
fort for inconvenient periods. Powders
and liquids can scarcely be used without
appreciate loss. bat the tablets as "A RUE
are as firm as cut sugar. and nearly every
atom Is utilized More than that. con-
asnsed as remedies IN This form are. they
are more effective than whea administered
IN the larger ard looser volumes Of pow
ders and lluuids. Then doses can be adj
snlnsterea with much greater accuracy
than when patients or nurses are ieft 70
do The measuring, sometimes according
10 mere Judgment as. for instance. when
the prescription reads half wtnc-slass-
ia" etc Zach tablet ta!ns 20 a minute
fraction exactly the same quantity as eN-
cry other tablet in the same bottle or box
40 that the fatlcnt takes in each tablet
what the physician intended he should
take Finally. in tablet form medicines
are much less disaereeahle 10 the taste
than In any other in wa.ch ne mc9lciila4
ssfhs sanCe [S not covered Wlth SUGAR or
relatne tbs l. largely accountea tor ~
the fact that sugar of mik IS t!e pass
Of tho tr{turatfou which o. essential IN or
der 10 re8nee - tablet form Tire pul-
Verlzatior. compression. dryress ana sm2t
eornrsass also. perhaps contribute 20 a.
vest tablets of the unpasa tsh.eness OF pow
der and IiQuia forms Al these aaN Az
taxes commend The tablet Equally . pay
sseiars ard patients
trsauctlon 81 the tablet Is that sc has
slt.apene,i medicines especially tbt'9e lot-
,neffv put up i'm the shape ~ pitts the
rrsca az the latter vas rFtuce4 - % 80
per cent. aud many pl.l-nASet3 no" Il>''
-, thalr remedies in tablet forf0- me
.,i,,nfsrt,,rer-s complain that there Is al
,,ast no proat I'm the taAlct-IntAir'g' anu
f1at unless huge quantities were 7't'
shov would have 90 abandon she business
,rs@ Nc,v rheapau5ns. however. coEpcla
mem 10 80 on 50 tong as there - "A nv
ing tn n. since the public. HAVING tasted
medicines cheaper ard more &cceF,.A'ie
q, every other WAY. vii have 10 't'iet-
80 .,,rse this tends 20 mako stIi aAFdFF
-. 80. tha lot - the small ret84I 0faE-
$3.50 Another effect IS the trndF"F az
Re oeW departure 20 diminle3 "'.N oe
r,5...1 ofescrsptlou counters. lh1s Is q &c
e,}ed blow 10 ssoah drug A.o'e
49,, 90 white Fhcv charge lA0erAA prices
-.',.,...gtes UhlcA they themselves pVt
-. -, ,,rez-rsrtion. they are oollKe3 10
~, ths nr-psvsA tablets AZ low rates
t ,Ss same tirue thcv can not ti--
s,sr~s vi,h the service q assistant raAI
,es.iats especially stree theFc $50 So
ss,a always MI - presSr -. - 80,
.aH.
- O,d-fssntooed praefitiotefs
- "a rssssared WAYS. and some are
!. ser,.ttea IN preserving the corner of's-
$50 from extinction