Bernard Fantus - Knowledge

329:, Fantus conducted research in order to formulate medications that were more enjoyable to children. Knowing that medication in the form of candy would be best for children, Fantus studied candy confection and worked with candy-makers in order to determine that "sweet tablets" would be the best way to administer medicine to kids in a candy form. Fantus' goal was to create medications that were not only palatable to children, but relatively easy and inexpensive to make, in order for them to be readily available and accessible to the public. Strong emphasis was put on the ability of the tablet to dissolve, to be an attractive color, and to have a palatable sweet flavor not reminiscent of typical medicine. 1759: 31: 410: 770: 782:

Throughout his career, Fantus became acutely aware of the importance of having access to blood for transfusions and the lack of accessibility that existed at the time. Transfusions were typically only done directly from donor to patient and were typically not used for emergency traumas. Fantus was

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was underway and he immediately realized the multitude of possibilities and the abundance of lives that could be saved, especially in times of war, that storing blood for transfusion presented. From information he obtained from Russian publications, Fantus learned that storing blood was a rather

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Unfortunately, however, many a child has had its palate offended by liquid medicines to such a degree that it abhors spoon-medicine of any kind, and will struggle even against the most palatable. When one witnesses the struggling of the average child against the average medicine, one cannot but

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It is the author's hope that this booklet may be instrumental in robbing childhood of one of its terrors, namely, nasty medicine; that it may lessen the difficulties experienced by nurse and mother in giving medicament to the sick child; and help to make the doctor more popular with the little

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simple process and that establishing some sort of laboratory for it in the United States would not be very complicated. From that point on, Fantus made it his mission to establish a laboratory where blood could be stored. His daughter Ruth is credited with coming up with the term "

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wonder whether at times the struggle does not do more harm than the medicine can do good, and wish that we had other means of administering medicines to the little ones. As all children love candy, this would seem the form most desirable for them.

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involves the comprehensive care of patients and is sometimes considered the science of healing. Preventative medicine and the proper use of drugs in treatments and administration fall under the purview of pharmacologic therapeutics.

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Fantus published an article in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association entitled "Tolu and sugar coating in the disguising of medicines," in which he amended some of his formulas from the book.

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Industry Costs and Profitability in New Jersey and Competitive States: An Analysis of the Fantus Company Report, A Research Program to Strengthen New Jersey’s Competitive Position for Business and Industry

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Industry costs and profitability in New Jersey and competitive states: an analysis of the Fantus Company report, A research program to strengthen New Jersey's competitive position for business and industry

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spurred Fantus on as he wanted to use the blood from people state side to save the lives of U.S. soldiers overseas. He thus spent years in the laboratory perfecting methods of transfusion.

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Snow, Clyde M, and Bernard Fantus. “Aqueous and Alcoholic Elixirs versus Aromatic elixirs**Read before Section on Practical Pharmacy and Dispensing, A. Ph. A., Cleveland Meeting, 1922.”

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What Instruction Ought Medical Colleges to Give in Pharmacology and therapeutics.Presented at the Second Annual Session of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States ...

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What instruction ought medical colleges to give in pharmacology and therapeutics.Presented at the second annual session of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States ...

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Fantus, Bernard. “Dose Standardization of Elixirs††Abstracted from the Address before the Unofficial Conference of U. S. P. and N. F. Revision Workers at Chicago, January 12, 1924.”

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Fantus found that the most effect way to disguise the taste of medicine and still maintain an effective integrity that met his criteria was with sugar coating and the use of

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Snow, Clyde M., and Bernard Fantus. “Tablets for the National Formulary**Read before Section on Practical Pharmacy and Dispensing, A. Ph. A., New Orleans Meeting, 1921.”

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A Text Book on Prescription Writing and Pharmacy :with Practice in Prescription-Writing, Laboratory Exercises in Pharmacy, and a Reference List of the Official Drugs

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A text book on prescription writing and pharmacy :with practice in prescription-writing, laboratory exercises in pharmacy, and a reference list of the official drugs

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Dose Standardization of Elixirs††Abstracted from the address before the Unofficial Conference of U. S. P. and N. F. Revision Workers at Chicago, January 12, 1924.

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Just think what it would mean to our soldiers to know that their loved ones at home were sending them the Blood of Life in their moment of greatest need.

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Aqueous and alcoholic elixirs versus aromatic elixirs**Read before Section on Practical Pharmacy and Dispensing, A. Ph. A., Cleveland meeting, 1922

1803: 141:, Fantus was an apprentice for Mr. Leushner at Paul Leuchner's Drug store, who began training him in pharmacy. By 1902 the family relocated to 133:. From a young age, his parents supported his ambition to be a physician. In 1889, at the age of fifteen, he and his parents immigrated to the 1359:

The Technic of Medication; Discussion of the Methods of Prescribing and Preparing, the Indications For, and the Uses Of, Various Medicaments.

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The technic of medication; discussion of the methods of prescribing and preparing, the indications for, and the uses of, various medicaments.

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Tablets for the National Formulary**Read before Section on Practical Pharmacy and Dispensing, A. Ph. A., New Orleans meeting, 1921.

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Through his book, Fantus sought to make sweet tablets common place by giving pharmacists and physicians a guide book of sorts.

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After suffering a heart attack the year prior, Fantus died on April 14, 1940, at the age of sixty-five. Fantus was buried at

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