Mercury with chalk 3.00 Gm. White fat sugar 27.00 Gm. Mix by thorough trituration in a mortar and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets. Alternate Formula. Mercury with chalk 3.00 Gm. Spirit of peppermint 0.60 Cc. Fat starch 6.00 Gm. Sugar, powdered 21.00 Gm. Mix the ingredients, with the exception of the fat starch, by thorough trituration in a mortar; add the latter by gentle trituration for a short time only; and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets. 33. TABELLAE HYDRARGYRI IODIDI FLAVI DULCES. Sweet Tablets of Yellow Mercurous Iodide. 0.003 Gm. (gr. 1/20). Larger dose could be administered in this form. These tablets must be well protected against light or they will rapidly become dark; when thus protected, they keep fairly well. Yellow mercurous iodide 0.30 Gm. White fat sugar 18.00 Gm. Mix by thorough trituration in a mortar and compress in a tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.18 Gm. tablets. Alternate Formula. Yellow mercurous iodide 0.30 Gm. Spirit of peppermint 0.40 Cc. Fat starch 3.60 Gm. Sugar, powdered 14.10 Gm. Having thoroughly triturated the yellow mercurous iodide with the sugar, add the spirit of peppermint and triturate again. Then add the fat starch, triturating gently and for a short time only. Compress in a tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.18 Gm. tablets. 34. TABELLAE HYDRARGYRI IODIDI RUBRI DULCES. Sweet Tablets of Red Mercuric Iodide. 0.001 Gm. (gr. 1/60). _Caution:_--Only a moderate number of these tablets should be ordered at one time. Larger dose of red mercuric iodide could be administered in this form. Red mercuric iodide 0.10 Gm. Red fat sugar 18.00 Gm. Thoroughly mix the red mercuric iodide with the red fat sugar by trituration in a mortar; and compress in a tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.18 Gm. tablets. Alternate Formula. Red mercuric iodide 0.10 Gm. Spirit of cinnamon, 10% 0.20 Cc. Carmine 0.50 Gm. Fat starch 3.60 Gm. Sugar, powdered 13.80 Gm. Having thoroughly triturated the red mercuric iodide with the sugar, add the carmine and the spirit of cinnamon and triturate again. Then add the fat starch, triturating gently and for a short time only. Compress in a tablet machine, using 5/16-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.18 Gm. tablets. 35. TABELLAE HYOSCINAE DULCES. Sweet Tablets of Hyoscine.