Mother's Little Helper
Mother's Little Helper
The Rolling Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfGYSHy1jQs
Originally shared by Irina T.
William Brockedon, an English painter, writer and inventor was born #onthisday 13 October 1787.
"His introduction of the compressed tablet was one of the most far-reaching developments in the history of drug manufacture, and nothing has done more to promote the growth of the industry. It is curious that this revolution in the preparation and supply of drugs was inspired by one outside the trade and who is better known for his activities in other fields.
[…]
On December 8, 1843. Brockedon was granted English Patent No. 9977, for " Shaping Pills, Lozenges and Black Lead by Pressure in Dies. " In 1844 the Pharmaceutical Journal announced:
We have received a specimen of bi-carbonate of potash com- pressed into the form of a pill by a process invented by Mr. Brockedon, and for which he has taken out a patent. We understand the process is appiicable to the compression of a variety of other substances into a solid mass, without the intervention of gum or other adhesive material. Mr. Brockedon has promised to favour us with a detailed account of this process tor publication in an early number.
The promised account does not seem to have been published. The history of the tablet industry is treated at length by Kebler in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association.' Brockedon's production of a compressed tablet without the use of an adhesive was a real advance, and his potash tablet had a large sale in America.
Eventually tablets superseded dosed powders, and with improved methods their large-scale manufacture became a practical proposition. There were important consequences. The retailer found it unnecessary to make up medicines which could be obtained ready-made from the manufacturer, while the public soon learned to appreciate that tablets were easy to take, and were an ideal method of medication during absence from home. One of the chief reasons for the popularity of tablets was the fact that drugs could be obtained in exact dosage from shops at home and abroad. Brockedon's interest in the compression of substances arose through the exhaustion of the graphite mines in Cumberland and the difficulty which he and fellow artists experienced in obtaining pencils free from grit. His method of reducing common black lead to powder, and reducing it in vacuo, produced an artificial plumbago for lead pencils of superior quality."
Excerpted from
The chemist and druggist by UBM/Volume Vol. 162 = no. 3888 (28 Aug. 1954)
https://archive.org/details/b19974760M4060
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Also residing in museums are pieces of ancient Roman pill-making equipment, such as a stone in the British Museum. The stone has long flat grooves into which the pill maker would press clay or other substances to make long, snaky strings. Then the pill maker would prize the strings out and cut them into discs to form pills--much the way one cuts dough for cookies.
Medicines in pill form were all the rage in 17th century England and thereafter. Pill manufacturers were even granted special patent rights from the king for their top-secret formulas.
One famous patented product from the 18th century: "Hooper's Female Pills," which were guaranteed to contain "the best purging and anti-hysterik ingredients." 😊
The Colorful History of Pills Can Fill Many a Tablet by Rosie Mestel
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/25/health/he-booster25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brockedon
Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Brockedon,_by_William_Brockedon.jpg (PD USA)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATablet_press_animation.gif
By Jeff Dahl [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License
I'm not familiar with the process so I put my trust in Jeff Dafl who created the gif :-)
The Rolling Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfGYSHy1jQs
Originally shared by Irina T.
William Brockedon, an English painter, writer and inventor was born #onthisday 13 October 1787.
"His introduction of the compressed tablet was one of the most far-reaching developments in the history of drug manufacture, and nothing has done more to promote the growth of the industry. It is curious that this revolution in the preparation and supply of drugs was inspired by one outside the trade and who is better known for his activities in other fields.
[…]
On December 8, 1843. Brockedon was granted English Patent No. 9977, for " Shaping Pills, Lozenges and Black Lead by Pressure in Dies. " In 1844 the Pharmaceutical Journal announced:
We have received a specimen of bi-carbonate of potash com- pressed into the form of a pill by a process invented by Mr. Brockedon, and for which he has taken out a patent. We understand the process is appiicable to the compression of a variety of other substances into a solid mass, without the intervention of gum or other adhesive material. Mr. Brockedon has promised to favour us with a detailed account of this process tor publication in an early number.
The promised account does not seem to have been published. The history of the tablet industry is treated at length by Kebler in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association.' Brockedon's production of a compressed tablet without the use of an adhesive was a real advance, and his potash tablet had a large sale in America.
Eventually tablets superseded dosed powders, and with improved methods their large-scale manufacture became a practical proposition. There were important consequences. The retailer found it unnecessary to make up medicines which could be obtained ready-made from the manufacturer, while the public soon learned to appreciate that tablets were easy to take, and were an ideal method of medication during absence from home. One of the chief reasons for the popularity of tablets was the fact that drugs could be obtained in exact dosage from shops at home and abroad. Brockedon's interest in the compression of substances arose through the exhaustion of the graphite mines in Cumberland and the difficulty which he and fellow artists experienced in obtaining pencils free from grit. His method of reducing common black lead to powder, and reducing it in vacuo, produced an artificial plumbago for lead pencils of superior quality."
Excerpted from
The chemist and druggist by UBM/Volume Vol. 162 = no. 3888 (28 Aug. 1954)
https://archive.org/details/b19974760M4060
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also residing in museums are pieces of ancient Roman pill-making equipment, such as a stone in the British Museum. The stone has long flat grooves into which the pill maker would press clay or other substances to make long, snaky strings. Then the pill maker would prize the strings out and cut them into discs to form pills--much the way one cuts dough for cookies.
Medicines in pill form were all the rage in 17th century England and thereafter. Pill manufacturers were even granted special patent rights from the king for their top-secret formulas.
One famous patented product from the 18th century: "Hooper's Female Pills," which were guaranteed to contain "the best purging and anti-hysterik ingredients." 😊
The Colorful History of Pills Can Fill Many a Tablet by Rosie Mestel
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/25/health/he-booster25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brockedon
Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Brockedon,_by_William_Brockedon.jpg (PD USA)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATablet_press_animation.gif
By Jeff Dahl [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License
I'm not familiar with the process so I put my trust in Jeff Dafl who created the gif :-)
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