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Ready-Made 
Pills  of  Our  Day. 
( Am  Jour.  Pharm. 
\       Mar.  1876. 
I  found  that  all  the  pills  described,  with  the  exception  of  the  Dunton 
compressed  pill,  contained  excipients  of  some  kind  to  keep  them  in  pill 
form. 
The  Wyeth  compressed  pill  was  submitted  to  same  test  as  the  Dun- 
ton  pill,  but  required  one-fourth  longer  time  to  dissolve,  whilst  the 
solution  of  the  quinine  pills  was '  cloudy,  and  had  a  very  perceptible 
