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- Pill Silverer - Early apothecaries or pharmacists mixed medicinal herbs, minerals, and other ingredients into pills for patients. They sometimes coated pills in gold or silver leaf with a pill silverer, gently rolling moistened pills in the container's gold- or silver-leafed interior. The coating may have enhanced the pill's appearance, making it seem more palatable, but the hard-to-digest coating also may have made the pill ineffective.
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Pill Silverer
Early apothecaries or pharmacists mixed medicinal herbs, minerals, and other ingredients into pills for patients. They sometimes coated pills in gold or silver leaf with a pill silverer, gently rolling moistened pills in the container's gold- or silver-leafed interior. The coating may have enhanced the pill's appearance, making it seem more palatable, but the hard-to-digest coating also may have made the pill ineffective.