Pill Tile
Historical artifact -- Pill Tile
Identifier:
B379LDescription
White earthenware pill tile.Tin glazed, square/rectangular shaped.
Marked In 1.5" Scale, starting at 0 and goes up to 24 at intervals of 6.
Apothecaries used pill tiles for mixing medications with a spatula.
Pill tiles are used to make pills and mix ointments. Pills were cut from a large long roll of a drug mixture. The dosage could be worked out by measuring the length of the roll and dividing it by the number of pills that would be cut from it. Once cut, the segments would be rolled into a spherical pill shape on the tile.