. The Medical and surgical reporter . 1854 Adapted andrecommendedfor the curerecent or chron-ic Gleets, FluorAlbus, etc., etc. PURE COPAIBAAND OTHER MEDICINES. The Mathey-Caylus Capsules, coated with gluten, pre-sent the most perfect mode for administering Copaiba, Cubebs,Norway Tar, Turpentine, and other remedies, the disagreeableodor and taste of which are often a hindrance to their use. Thismode of preparing capsules, which has been approved by theAcademy of Medicine, has been recommended in their clinicallectures by eminent Professors in the hospitals of Paris, as wellas in those of New Yo
. The Medical and surgical reporter . 1854 Adapted andrecommendedfor the curerecent or chron-ic Gleets, FluorAlbus, etc., etc. PURE COPAIBAAND OTHER MEDICINES. The Mathey-Caylus Capsules, coated with gluten, pre-sent the most perfect mode for administering Copaiba, Cubebs,Norway Tar, Turpentine, and other remedies, the disagreeableodor and taste of which are often a hindrance to their use. Thismode of preparing capsules, which has been approved by theAcademy of Medicine, has been recommended in their clinicallectures by eminent Professors in the hospitals of Paris, as wellas in those of New York and 18S4 By the firstphysicians ofthe hospitals ofParis, London,and New York. Special advantages of Mathey-Caylus Gluten Capsules.—Being formed »nf thin, transparent, andreadily assimilated coating, they so cover and disguise the medicine to be given, that it ouP **» *,aken withoutdisgust, but with ease. In this respect, they differ widely from the gelatine capsule& hich have a hard, thickcoating, which swells beyond measure, in the stomach, are hard to be swallowed, and vkr* is of great import-ance, they create disturbance in the digestive functions. The special advantage of the coating of gluten consists in the fact that, notwithstanding its extra thinness,and although it softens under the action of the gastric juice, it can pass the stomach without breaking, and onlyin the intestines is the medicinal matter liberated ; this accounts for the fact that Mathey-Caylus Capsulesnever cause the nausea, eructations, and dyspeptic symptoms, which are complained of by many persons using:
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