CAPSULES OF GELATIN. 
are many cases in which these being but imperfectly accom- 
plished its use is necessarily prevented. The gentlemen 
above named are certainly entitled to the credit of having in- 
vented the most ingenious and best devised mode of adminis- 
tering this medicine, in the way indicated by the title of this 
article. Having observed that their capsules^ ^ of balsam 
copaiba produced the effects desired, from the use of that re- 
medy, and that they were taken by the patient without any 
nausea or repugnance, I was immediately struck with the 
propriety of the suggestion made by the inventors, that these 
capsules could advantageously be employed in the adminis- 
tration of various other pungent or disagreeable medicines, and 
for this purpose might readily be kept on hand by our apo- 
thecaries, to be filled with such articles and in such doses as 
physicians' prescriptions might from time to time direct. 
Under this conviction, I instituted a number of experiments, 
from which I have learned the mode of manufacturing the 
"capsules," which I now proceed to detail, and it may not be 
amiss to state that so close was the imitation and so nearly 
does the article manufactured according to the following pro- 
cess resemble the imported, that many of those made by me 
were sold as French, by dealers who purchased from me. 
Believing that this mode of administering the balsam referred 
to, and of applying the most acrid medicines to the interior 
stomach without disagreeably affecting the mouth will natu- 
rally supersede all others, I take great pleasure in submitting 
it for publication in the Journal. 
The apparatus necessary for manufacturing the article in 
question, is certainly not extensive and by no means costly. 
Provide a suitable number of narrow tin dishes, about eighteen 
or twenty inches in length, half an inch in depth, and about 
two inches in width. In the length of these, and in a line, 
plant or solder at the distance of one inch from each other a 
number of smoothly turned metallic knobs of an ovoid shape, 
whose apex, having been somewhat lengthened out, forms a 
thin neck by which they are attached to the tin dishes. This 
