glidant such as colloidal silica may be added to improve flow properties a disintegrating or solubilizing agent may be added to improve the availability of the medicament when the capsule is ingested tablets are made by preparing a powder mixture granulating or slugging adding a lubricant and disintegrant and pressing into tablets a powder mixture is prepared by mixing the compound suitably comminuted with a diluent or base such as starch sucrose kaolin dicalcium phosphate and the like the powder mixture can be granulated by wetting with a binder such as syrup starch paste acacia mucilage or solutions of cellulosic or polymeric materials and forcing through a screen as an alternative to granulating the powder mixture can be run through the tablet machine and the resulting imperfectly formed slugs broken into granules the granules can be lubricated to prevent sticking to the tablet forming dies by means of the addition of stearic acid a stearate salt talc or mineral oil the lubricated mixture is then compressed into tablets the medicaments can also be combined with free flowing inert carriers and compressed into tablets directly without going through the granulating or slugging steps a protective coating consisting of a sealing coat of shellac a coating of sugar or polymeric material and a polish coating of wax can be provided dyestuffs can be added to these coatings to distinguish different unit dosages oral fluids such as syrups and elixirs can be prepared in unit dosage form so that a given quantity e g a teaspoonful contains a predetermined amount of the compound syrups can be prepared by dissolving the compound in a.