Mix the saccharin with the spirit of peppermint, add the magnesia, and mix by thorough trituration in a mortar. Then incorporate the sugar by thorough trituration, and fat starch by gentle trituration for a short time only. Compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.25 Gm. tablets. 38. TABELLAE MAGNESII SALICYLATIS DULCES. Sweet Tablets of Magnesium Salicylate. 0.03 Gm. (gr. 1/2). Magnesium salicylate 3.00 Gm. Green 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. Magnesium salicylate 3.00 Gm. Spirit of gaultheria, 10% 1.20 Cc. Solution of malachite green, 1:1000 1.20 Cc. Fat starch 6.00 Gm. Sugar, powdered 21.00 Gm. Mix the ingredients, excepting the fat starch, by thorough trituration in a mortar; incorporate the fat starch 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. 39. TABELLAE MORPHINAE DULCES. Sweet Tablets of Morphine. 0.0006 Gm. (gr. 1/100). _Caution:_--Owing to the toxicity of morphine only a few of these tablets should be ordered at one time, perhaps not more than three, as a few milligrams are liable to constitute a lethal dose. Morphine (alkaloid) 0.06 Gm. Alcoholic solution of saccharin, 3% 2.00 Cc. Sodium bicarbonate 1.00 Gm. Vanilla cacao sugar 29.00 Gm. Mix the morphine with the alcoholic solution of saccharin (in a hot mortar if in a hurry), and permit the alcohol to evaporate; then add the sodium bicarbonate and the vanilla cacao sugar, triturating thoroughly; and compress in a tablet machine, using 3/8-inch die and punches, to make one hundred 0.30 Gm. tablets. _Note:_--If any difficulty is experienced in the compression of these tablets, the addition of a little shaved paraffin will probably remedy it. Alternate Formula. Morphine (alkaloid) 0.06 Gm. Saccharin 0.06 Gm. Tincture of vanilla 1.50 Cc. Sodium bicarbonate 1.00 Gm. Cacao powder 3.00 Gm. Sugar, powdered 26.00 Gm. Mix the saccharin with the tincture of vanilla, add the morphine, and allow the alcohol to evaporate. Then incorporate the other ingredients 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. _Note:_--See note under above formula. 40. TABELLAE PHENOLPHTHALEINI DULCES. Sweet Tablets of Phenolphthalein. 0.06 Gm. (gr. 1).