PHARMACEUTICAL NOTICES. 
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chalybeate is indispensable, in three grain closes, made into 
pills. As it has a ferruginous taste not the most palatable to the 
ladies, various devices have therefore been tried with the view 
to its administration in the most acceptable form. In the pursuit 
of this object, a syrup was recommended in place of the pills, 
to which many patients have a decided objection.; then troches, 
more agreeable, on account of the sugar; and finally a ferru- 
ginous chocolate. This last has been most popular with phy- 
sicians, both on account of the nutritious nature, as well as 
the rich flavor of the chocolate, which effectually disguises 
the chalybeate, and was therefore considered a valuable addi- 
tion to Pharmacy, to which it properly belongs, though 
brought out here and in other places under the auspices of the 
confectioner. In a prospectus obtained from such a source, 
after detailing its properties, recommendations, &c, mention 
is made that the iron is incorporated in the form of a powder 
with the chocolate. 
This led us to suppose that the true protocarbonate was not 
used, but the ordinary rust Of iron instead, which, upon sub- 
sequent inquiry turned out to be the case. The plea urged 
for the substitution was the impossibility of mixing a substance 
containing aqueous moisture with chocolate ; water and fat 
being antipodes. 
This circumstance induced us to devise a formula, which 
would ensure a certainty of the effects to be derived from 
Vallet's mass, with the grateful flavor of chocolate and sugar, 
and in the enticing form of a lozenge. It is as follows : 
Take of Vallet's ferruginous mass, 15 drs. 
Prepared Cocoa,* 2 oz. 
Powdered Gum Tragacanth, 4 drs. 
Refined Sugar, 6 oz. 
Tincture of Vanilla, 1 dr. 
Reduce the cocoa to fine powder along with the sugar, then 
*This is the chocolate nut roasted, deprived of its outer covering and 
broken up. 
