April, 1882. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 
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JO NES & CO. 
MATTHEWS BROS. & ILLINGWORTH, 
Surgical Instrument Makers, 
106 and 108 LONSDALE STREET EAST 
(OPPOSITE MELBOURNE HOSPITAL), 
And at KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON. 
Makers of Artificial Limbs, Trusses, and Instruments and Appliances for Relief 
and Cure of all kinds of Deformity. 
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS OF ALL KINDS MANUFACTURED ON THE PREMISES. 
f^T SOLE MAKERS BY APPOINTMENT TO MELBOURNE HOSPITAL. 
Resident Partner, FRANK ILLINGWORTH. 
®i\ §HOWBALLl Improved Jury Hast. 
TO THE TRADE. 
ATTENTION IS RESPECTFULLY INVITED TO THE FOLLOWING FACTS IN RESPECT TO 
SUGAR-COATED PILLS, 
Manufactured by W. R. WARNER & CO., Philadelphia, U.S.A. 
The manufacture of officinal and other ready-made Pills for Physicians 
with sugar, be™” 00 . « — - ^ — z— * 
proper 
. omcmai ana otner ready-made Prlls for Physicians’ Prescriptions has been on our part confined to those coati 
because an experience of more than a Quarter of a Century serves to convince us that sugar is the only 
er material with which to coat a pill, in confirmation of which we append the following reasons : 
1. Because Sugar is more soluble than Gelatine, 
Glue } Chalk, or Talc, of which Gelatine and Glue are 
the same in substance and properties. “ Sugar-coated Pills 
are more soluble than gelatine-coated or compressed 
Pills, Professor Remington’s Paper read before the 
American Pharmaceutical Association , Boston , 1875. 
2. That, according to our process, no sub-coating of 
insoluble Shellac, or Gum Mastic, or “oily” 
surface polishing is necessary. 
3. That the direct application of Heat is entirely 
avoided, and the masses can be coated when so soft as 
not to admit of being dipped in a hot solution of Gelatine. 
4. Sugar as a coating is not incompatible , as is the case 
with Gelatine, &c., when brought into contact with certain 
kinds of food, astringent fruits, or wine containing Tannin, 
by which it (Gelatine) is converted into a condition, 
the basis of leather. 
Complete lists forwarded on application, enclosing 
G.P.O., Melbourne, Victoria, 
5. The preservative properties of sugar , and the tendency 
to attract, rather than yield moisture, prevent the sub- 
sequent drying and hardening of the pills. 
6. A round substance is more easily swallowed 
than one which is elongated, flattened, or 
pointed, there being no art in deglutition that would 
enable it to pass endwise. 
7. The colour and shape of some varieties of oviform 
gelatanised Pills are so inelegant, by comparison 
with the spherical white sugared Pill, as to be 
repulsive to sensitive patients. 
8. Actual experiments which you are enabled to perform 
as to solubility, and the administration of a dose of 
Cathartic Pills, the effect of which is soon apparent, will 
practically demonstrate the truth of our claims for the 
superiority of Warner & Go’s Method over ALL 
others for preparing Coated-Pills. 
your business card only. Address— W. R. W. & CO., Box 98, 
