In The UK the average person takes 14,000 pills during their life time and this figure include only prescription drugs. it is estimated that if pills bought over the counter such as aspirin were to be included the number taken with crime to around 40,000 in an average life time. originally pills were small rounded ball of medicine, though now the word were first to capsule and tablet too. In their original form pills can be trade back into 1500 B.C.E. though evidence of medicinal treatment dead as far back as 4,000 B.C.E. with references to liquid preparation being found in Ancient Assyrian Writing the obvious advantage of the pills over liquid medicine as people discovered the thousand of years ago. It is ability to regulate the amount of medicines given to a patients at any one time. The early references to actual pills comes from ancient Egypt which recorded recipe for pills made from honey, grease or bread these base substances must have help the medicine together well because the active ingredients such as saffron or cinnamon were mixed into them. Pills were than form divided using the hand to roll the mixtures into small balls. The word “Pills” didn’t come from these time though. It wasn’t until the Roman Era that pliny who live in the first century C.E. use to the term pill-yellow. In medieval times people started to think about making pills more power able and the experimented with coating pills with difference substances to make them ball easier to swallow and more attractive. Certain spices and even gold or silver were used the ladder might have made the pills more attractive but it also meant the pills would have been digested without releasing many medicinal benefits. And the 1800’s the tablet medicine presented in the compress form and also the capsule medicine held in small digestible container were invented. The traditional way of … and forming pills began to died out but nowadays the name still live on and can be used to mean all types medicine in tablet form throughout the first half of the 20th century the contain of pills remain largely organic and herbal based more like the alternative medicine some people are reverting to now. Pharmaceutical drug in pills, tablet and capsule form became widely available in the mid-20th century. Now we depend the … safe reliable and cheap relieve from a unfortunately though this dependency has over wealth some people with addiction to prescription drug being now one of the fastest growing social problem in country such as The U.S.