Friday Fun Fact: Gold-Coated Pills

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Before gelatin and sugar coatings were invented in the 1800s, pills were sometimes gilded in gold or silver to conceal unpleasant tastes or aromas.

Photograph by Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-3.0.

Photograph by Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-3.0.

Before gelatin and sugar coatings were invented in the 1800s, pills were sometimes gilded in gold or silver to conceal unpleasant tastes or aromas.

 

 

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