1 starch-pulp. They are made in a machine adapted to
2 the purpose, similar to an ordinary pill-machine. One
3 drachm of the paste is placed on the machine and rolled
4 to a cylinder, which, in pressing, is cut into sixty long¬
5 shaped lozenges, and then dried.
6 I prefer the long-shaped, or, the fiat lozenges to the
7 round, because they are easier handled. Pills are round
8 for the convenience of swallowing, but lozenges ure
9 intended to be dissolved in the month.
10 Physicians themselves ought to prepare the medicines
11 they prescribe, or, at all events, to sea them prepared,
12 never trusting their prescriptions (as is customary) to
13 ordinary apothecaries; for, besides their own reputation,
14 the health and the life of their patients depend upon the
15 accuracy of the preparation. 1 hold every phj sioiati
16 responsible for whatever mistakes arise in the preparation
17 of his prescriptions; whether from the apothecary’s
18 ignorance, from involuntary mistakes (which are of
19 daily and hourly occurrence) from the,.common practice
20 of substituting one drug for another, or, from whftt
21 cause soever.
22 At Lahore l often found, that on sending for the
23 same article to different shops, 1 received as many dif¬
24 ferent articles; and I have pretty solid grounds for sup¬
25 posing that the like may not be a rare case in Europe.
26 As the druggists at Lahore and other places in the
27 Punjab, receive their drugs from CImritsir (one of the
28 most important cities, in a commercial point of vievy) 1
29 recommend all physicians iu that quarter to procure such
30 drugs as they .require, from Urnritsir, where there is
31 more abundant choice, and wheie the articles are Jess
32 expensive than at Lahore.