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Pill.

Medicine in the form of a small ball, larger than a pellet.

Large pills of metallic antimony constituted a favorite ancient remedy, which were administered and passed through the system with no more effect than so many little pebbles. Indeed, the same pills were used over again, and half a dozen such globules lasted for an unlimited time, being inherited in the family and performing innumerable supposed cures upon successive generations. This was not so very long ago.

Pills in a box and rolls of material for making them were found in an apothecary's house in the disentombed Herculaneum.

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