CHAPTER PAGE I. Historical Introduction 11 II. Tabellae Dulces 14 III. The Uses of Sweet Tablets 16 IV. The Making of Sweet Tablets 23 V. The Tablet Machine 27 VI. The Construction of Formulae for Sweet Tablets 31 Choice of Flavor 31 Subduing of Tastes 31 Choice of Color 34 VII. Formulae for the Preparation of Sweet Tablets 35 VIII. Formulae for Stock Preparations 72 References 75 Index 77 CANDY MEDICATION CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. THE IDEA of presenting medicine in candy form is really very old. The term confection, which originally meant a medicinal compound being derived from the Latin word "_conficere_," to put together, has been applied since the days of classical antiquity to mixtures of medicinal substances with saccharine matter. The only official relics of this once very extensive class of preparations are the confection of rose and the confection of senna; both of which, however, are also practically obsolete. The reason for this is not difficult to find. Neither of them come up to our modern ideas of a confection. We may officially call them a confection, but a youngster would be disrespectful enough to disagree with the pharmacopoeia. More closely akin to candy are lozenges, and yet they are not real candy. The only one among them that is pleasant is the santonin lozenge; and it is the only one that is popular. An especially good imitation of candy form are the deservedly popular so-called German worm lozenges. It was acquaintance with these that led the writer to seek for other real candy medicaments. He could find only two such upon the market: viz., Calomel Tablets under the name of "Aromatic Calomel," and Phenolphthalein Tablets under various fanciful trade-names, such as "Purgen," "Phenolax," etc., unless "Candy Cathartic Cascarets," and the French candy laxative known as "Tamar Indien" were also to be included. * * * * *