"troche" meaning in English

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        "3": "τρόχισκος",
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          "ref": "1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, page 260:",
          "text": "At night when you go to bed, take two drams of fine Gum Tragecanth, put it into a Galli-pot, and put half a quarter of a pint of any distilling water fitting the purpose you would make your Troches for, to it, cover it, and the next morning you shall finde it in such a Jelly as Physician, call Mussilage, with this you may (with a little pains taking) make any Pouder into Paste, and that Paste into little Cakes called Troches.",
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          "text": "The Germ. Pharm. states that the troches (pastilles) are to be made by compression or by massing with a suitable excipient, and forming into troches.",
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          "text": "The troches are weighed and the average weight per troche for that base is calculated.",
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