Am.  Jour.  Pharru. 
July.  1894. 
Tablet  Triturates. 
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formulated  that  alkaline  tincture  of  guaiacum  which  to  this  day 
bears  his  name  and  authorship. 
Then  the  framers  of  the  Pharmacopoeias  adopted  into  our 
national  codex,  first,  the  simple  alcoholic  solution,  a  tincture,  and 
then  the  ammoniated  alcoholic  tincture,  and  these  two  latter  have 
continued  in  official  sanction  to  this  day.  A  reference  to  numerous 
prescription  files  would  doubtless  show  but  limited  uses  of  these 
preparations,  and  we  may  again  turn  to  the  immediate  object  of 
our  query. 
In  my  remarks  upon  this  subject  I  have  raised  the  question  as  to 
how  far  the  property  characteristics,  which  are  peculiar  to  many 
drugs,  and  these  most  pronounced  and  definite  in  odor  and  taste, 
can  be  changed  or  modified  in  their  action  upon  our  sensible  organs 
without  jeopardizing  in  a  positive  degree  the  very  properties  which 
decide  their  value. 
TABLET  TRITURATES. 
By  D.  J.  Thomas.  «** 
Read  before  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  June  14,  1894. 
The  past  decade  marks  a  new  era  in  pharmaceutical  history. 
Never  since  its  inception  has  pharmacy  made  such  rapid,  progressive 
strides  as  within  the  last  ten  years.  It  has  kept  pace  with  the 
developments  in  other  lines  of  art  and  science,  and  the  discoveries 
of  the  inventive  pharmaceutical  mind  will  pass  into  history  that  shall 
occupy  a  conspicuous  place  in  the  archives  of  pharmaceutical  litera- 
ture. 
The  demand  for  elegant  pharmaceutical  preparations  has  resulted 
in  the  introduction  of  a  class  of  products  known  as  Tablet  Tritu- 
rates, or,  more  properly,  Triturate  Tablets.  Whether  it  may  con- 
sistently be  maintained  that  they  are  entitled  to  a  place  in  the  list  of 
"  elegant  pharmaceuticals,"  a  difference  of  opinion  exists  ;  many 
claiming  that  they  cannot  lay  claim  to  a  position  in  that  class. 
Something  should  be  known  by  the  pharmacist  as  to  the  position 
Triturate  Tablets  occupy,  the  extent  of  their  use,  what  prompted 
their  introduction,  and  the  position  they  have  finally  attained.  This 
has  given  rise  to  the  queries :  "  To  what  extent  are  physicians  em- 
ploying Triturate  Tablets  in  their  practice,  and  with  what  degree  of 
success  ?    Has  the  introduction  of  these  diminished  the  prescription 
