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cine should be designated in medical prescriptions by its spe- 
cific name, so that no doubt may exist, and the substitution of 
the new species for the old in mercantile transactions may be 
avoided. Journal de Pharmacie. 
ART. XXXVII. — NEW METHOD OF COVERING PILLS WITH 
A COATING OF GELATINE. By M. Garot. 
I had prepared, some time ago, in accordance with the 
prescription of a physician of my neighborhood, a mixture 
of cubebs and other powders, which I incorporated into the 
balsam of copaiba; and I employed, in order to render the 
administration easier, the empty capsules obtained from our 
associate, M. Dublanc. Having prepared anew the same 
mixture, and being in want of capsules, I sent to our associate 
for them, but was informed that, from some new arrangement, 
the proprietor of the gelatinous capsules was no longer willing 
to furnish them empty to apothecaries. 
To comply with the wishes of the physician, who was 
desirous that the medicine should be prepared by myself, or 
thus to speak, under his own eyes, and also to enable apothe- 
caries themselves, to prepare the pills that physicians may 
direct, I have endeavored to attain the means by which we 
may be relieved from the embarrassment under which we 
have labored. 
The method that I am about to indicate is easy and expe- 
ditious; it may be applied to all medicines that can be made to 
assume a pillular consistence, whether balsam of copaiba, 
camphor, musk, assafoetida, sulphuret of potassa, the mercurial 
preparations, the ferruginous, or others. The odor and taste 
are completely disguised, and the mass thus enveloped pre- 
serves for a long time its softness. No matter what the form 
or size of the pill, there is the same facility in its application, 
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