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To Sugar-coat Pills

To sugarcoat, place the pills dry and smooth in a round copper pan or porcelain dish. In another pan dissolve white sugar in water in the same prowhite sugar in water in the same proen portion as for making simple syrup; and, when dissolved, slowly evaporate the syrup until it feathers; that is, when a small portion taken out with a ladle and drawn up between two fingers forms a thread. The pan with the pills is next suspended over a slow fire, a little fine flour is sprinkled over them, and immediately after a spoonful of the syrup is poured on, or enough to cover. The pan is now kept vomica, 45 grains dry sulphate of iron, 10 swinging or moving over the fire, care being drops oil of cloves, and sufficient syrup of gum-arabic to make into a mass. Divide into drops oil of cloves, and sufficient syrup of