ALWAYS SPECIFY MCKESSON & ROBBINS'

Gelatine-Coated Pills

MCKESSON & ROBBINS'

Gelatine-Coated Pills and Granules.

We take occasion to thank the profession and trade for their patronage of our GELATINE-
COATED PILLS, and request a continuance of the same. Full lines of our Pills have been established
in all the large centres of trade, and in many of the smaller cities. To those living in remote places we
will be happy to mail any formulas on our list, not procurable nearer home, upon receipt of price.
We regret to announce that our attention has been called to several instances where other pills have
been substituted by druggists when ours were desired, and even specified, by the physician
that such instances are rare, but in some cases physicians have notified us of such breach of honor in the
We believe
druggist.

New additions to List. Send for full Price List of our Pills.
MCKESSON & ROBBINS' PILLS ARE SPHEROIDAL OR CAPSULE SHAPE. Specify McK. & R.
CHARCOAL (Willow) 5 grs..
QUINIDIA SULPH., 1, 2 and 3 grs..
80, $1.50, and $2.20 per 100.
CERIUM, OXALATE, 1 gr
ALOIN, 1 gr...

.60 per 100

The value of pure powdered Willow Charcoal in
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and all affections arising from
derangements of the stomach, such as Headache, Heart-
burn, etc., is well known. Its use must necessarily
be much increased, since it is, for the first time, pre-
sented in a convenient, reliable, and unobjectionable
form in our Gelatine-coated Pills.
EXTRACT CANABIS INDICA, 1⁄4 gr.

$1.25 per 100.

This important extract is manufactured in our own
laboratory, and the pills, when cut, exhibit in a marked
manner, the distinctive color, taste, and odor of the
freshly-made extract. We copy from the U. S. Dis-
pensatory the following: "In morbid states of the
system it (Ext. Cannab. Indic.) has been found to
cause sleep, to allay spasms, to compose nervous in-
quietude, and to relieve pains: it differs from opium
1 not diminishing the appetite, checking the secre-
tions, or constipating the bowels." The complaints
in which it has been specially recommended are neural-
gia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic
cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depres-
sion, delirium tremens, insanity, and uterine hemor-
rhage."
For doses. see U. S. Dispensatory.
SALICIN, 2% and 5 grs..... $2.50 and $4.50 per 100.
Salicin is becoming more and more favorably known
in the treatment of rheumatic affections; also as a
tonic and antiperiodic, and is best exhibited in our
Gelatine coated Pills.
In acute rheumatism, Salicin has been found very
efficacious, and, according to The Lancet, not less
certain than Quinine, for ague." It has also been
claimed, in large doses, to be an absolute specific in
ulcerative choroiditis.
COCA EXTRACT, 1 gr. (McKesson & Robbins')
$2.00 per 100.

The extract used in these piils is manufactured in
our labaratory from fresh leaves, Coca is a South
American plant, used by the natives as a substitute
for tea, coffee, tobacco, ashish, and opium of other
countries. It imparts vigor to the muscles as well as
to the intellect, and enables the partaker to endure
great fatigue with ease. The feeling of exhilaration
accompanying its use is said not to be followed by any
depressing effects.
Dose, 1 to 4.

JABORANDI EXTRACT, 3 grs.. $3.00 per 100.
(Made of McKesson and Robbins' Extract.)
These pills present a much better form of admin-
istering this powerful diaphoretic and sialagogue than
any of the liquid preparations. Valuable in rheuma-
tism and syphilitic troubles of long standing. Dose, 1
to 3.
SANDAL-WOOD EXTRACT, 1 and 2 grs.
$2.00 and $3.00 per 100.

These pills contain both the oil and resin existing in
sandal-wood, are believed to be superior to the oil
alone, and are more convenient of administration.
The extract is manufactured from the wood, in our
laboratory.
SALICYLIC
MORPHIA,

ACID

with SULPHATE ..$1.25 and $2.00 per 100. Two sizes containing 2% and 5 grains Salicylic Acid, united with 1-12 and grain Sul. Morphia respectively. Strongly recommended in Rheumatism, both acute and chronic.

1.00 per 100.

1.50 per 100.

75 per 100.

SULPHIDE CALCIUM, 1–10 gr.......
CITRATE CAFFEIA, 1 gr........ 4.00
per 100.
FERROCYANIDE IRON, 3 grs.. 60 per 100.
DIALYSED IRON (Merck's scales) 2 grs.
VALERIANATE of AMMONIUM, 1 gr.

$1.25 per 100.

$1.00 per 100. MONOBROMATED CAMPHOR, 2 and 3 grs. $1.50 and $2. per 100.

It is now being considerably used in treatment of Spermatorrhoea; strongly recommended in cases of Cerebral-Anæmia; used successfully in Infantile Convulsions from teething; Hysteria, Headache from over study or nervousness, and Nymphomania. Dose, 3 to 4 grains.

ERGOTIN PILLS, 3 grs...

$2.00 per 100.

We manufacture our Ergotin with great care from the best quality of fresh selected Ergot, and it contains in the most potent form all the active constituents of Ergot of Rye, each grain representing 10 grains of Ergot, and each pill being equal to half a teaspoonful of officinal fluid extract. The value of Ergotin in the place of the crude drug and the fluid preparations is conceded; and it is being largely administered both in this country and in Europe. It has taken a prominent place in the treatment of neurotic diseases. Many of our most reliable practitioners, and particularly those of extended experience in gynecology, assert that they have never found a preparation of Ergot, in which, by experience, they felt as much confidence as in McKesson & Robbins' Ergotin Pills. The advantages of prescribing it in this form will be readily acknowledged. Dose, 1 to 3.

We offer our Ergotin, prepared specially for hypodermic use in one ounce bootles, $1.50 per oz. PHOSPHORUS, 1-100, 1-50, 1-20, 1-12 gr. $1.00 per 100.

The pure transparent Gelatine we use is in no degree porous, it preserves the Phosphorus perfectly in the free state. We have the Phosphorus in state of solu tion in the excipient we employ, this insures a gradual elimination of the Phosphorus in the stomach, thus avoiding the severe irritation that is so often experienced after taking the ordinary Phosphorus Pills, which are prepared by mixing the Phosphorus in substance with the excipient, in which small fragments of Phosphorus often remain. Note remarks by Dr. Squibb, in his paper before Am Pharm. Ass'n, Sept., 76, in which he states that Phosphorus should never be administered in substance, and if a coating be used, he commends Gelatine.

Many of the most eminent Physicians throughout the country, among whom are leading specialists in the treatment of Neurotic diseases, assert that McKes son & Robbins' Phosphorus Pills are the most rational medium yet found for exhibiting Phosphorus. PHOSPHORUS COMPOUND, 1-50, 1-60, and 1-100 gr. $1.25 per 100. PHOSPHORUS COMPOUND AND IRON, $1.25 per 100

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Price Lists and Samples furnished upon application. Private formulas of 3,000 or more pills made and coated to order.

McKESSON & ROBBINS,

Wholesale Druggists and Manufacturing Chemists, 91 Fulton St., New York

GELATINE-COATED PILLS.

(WHY THEY ARE SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS.)

One of McKesson & Robbins' Gelatine-Coated Pills, placed in the mouth and agitated by the tongue, will be relieved of its coating in less than two minutes, and the pill mass will be in a much more assimilable condition than any other pill in market, whether compressed or sugar-coated; therefore, less than two minutes is sufficient for any person to disprove the fallacy, so diligently disseminated by the manufacturers of sugar-coated and compressed pills, as to their relative solubility when compared with the Gelatine-Coated; neither is it necessary to employ representatives to show, what every cook, in making jelly, perfectly understands, that Gelatine is not entirely soluble in cold water, but is in warm water: and if, as can be easily proved, the Gelatine coating is soluble in the mouth, how much more readily will the juices of the stomach dissolve it. Can any one believe that a hard, round, kiln-dried pill, coated with sugar or any other substance, or a flat disk, subjected to immense pressure, is more soluble, more quickly assimilable or more easily taken by the patient, than a spheroidal soft pill (a soft consistence is absolutely necessary to permit gelatine-coating by our process), coated by a continuous film of Gelatine; for a gelatine-coated pill in good condition, is only a form of soft pill mass encased in a capsule of gelatine--the soft pill, as used in the process of manufacture, being in fact the mould around which the capsule is formed.

So many physicians can practically attest the superiority of McKesson & Robbins' Pills, in reliability, solubility and adaptability of the coating and contents, that it may be unnecessary to submit the following brief statement of facts:

1. McKesson & Robbins' Pills are carefully and conscientiously made; all the materials used are tested by a competent chemist, and the Pills repeatedly analyzed to prove correctness in the synthesis. The thickness of the coating sometimes necessarily varies. The nature of the excipients is carefully considered.

2. It must be granted that, the oval, or more properly the spheroidal, is the form best adapted to the throat, and that, the gelatine completely covers the taste and renders the pill capable of being easily swallowed by the patient and accepted by the stomach, without nausea-important desiderata to the patient.

3. The solubility of the coating, as stated above, may be readily proved by swallowing one of McKesson & Robbins' Ert. Guarana (Paullinia Sorbilis) Pills, and the length of time it takes to dissolve in the stomach, may be determined by the sensation of the distinctive taste of the drug a short time after swallowing.

4. The Coating of McKesson & Robbins' Pills is applied by a special process and differs from all others in the fact that, it is air-tight and not porous, which is a very important consideration in many delicate preparations, as Phosphorus, Phosphorus and Iron and other compounds. By this coating the mass is perfectly protected from exposure to the air, which is not the case with the sugar-coated, compressed, or so-called, soluble pills.

McKesson & Robbins' Pills have "outlived the period of fashionable novelty" and become deserv edly popular with physicians and patients, on account of efficiency, reliability and the facility with which they may be swallowed; and, although infallibility, which is incompatible with anything human, is not claimed, still any charge against them should be scrutinized for the animus of selfinterest and answered by practical tests.

Samples always sent upon application.

One of McKesson & Robbins' Pills, placed in the mouth, will be relieved of its coating in less than two minutes.

Compounds better than Sugar.

NEW YORK.

MCKESSON & ROBBINS,
Manufacturing Chemists,

MCKESSON & ROBBINS' GELATINE-COATED PILLS.-PRICE LIST COntinued.

Our Pills are procurable fron all respectable Druggists, or sent by mail direct from New York, in Boxes of 100 and 500, upon receipt of list price, whenever it is impossible to obtain McKesson & Robbins' at your Druggists'.

THE

ANNUAL MEDICAL DIRECTORY

OF

REGULAR PHYSICIANS

IN THE

STATE OF ILLINOIS,

INCLUDING ALL THOSE WHO HAVE COMPLIED WITH THE LAW BY REGISTERING IN THE OFFICE OF THE

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

FOR THE YEAR 1878.

F. A. EMMONS, M. D.,

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.

CHICAGO:

R. R. M'CABE & Co., PRINTERS, 57 WASHINGTON STREET.

1878.
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