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CANDY MEDICATION

    BY
    BERNARD FANTUS, M. D.
    Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of
    Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago.

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    ST. LOUIS
    C. V. MOSBY COMPANY
    1915




    COPYRIGHT 1915, BY C. V. MOSBY COMPANY

    _Press of
    C. V. Mosby Company
    St. Louis_




PREFACE.


CANDY MEDICATION has given such delightful results in practice among
children that the author believes it should be more widely known
and used. A formulary to serve as the common meeting ground for the
prescribing physician and the dispensing pharmacist seems absolutely
necessary to make this form of medication more generally available; and
it is mainly to supply this formulary that this little book has been
published.

Researches conducted by the author in the Pharmacologic Laboratory of
the University of Illinois during the past five years, as well as the
experience gained by the use of this form of medication in private
practice, form the basis of this publication.

To give the best results, the sweet tablets described in this formulary
should be freshly prepared on physician's order; thereby securing
efficiency and palatability to the highest degree, and enabling
the physician to prescribe the dose and combination needed for the
particular case in hand. To bring these tablets into the category of
extemporaneous preparations, the author has elaborated the process of
"fat covering" which makes the preparation of these tablets no more
difficult than the making of pills or of suppositories.

In the pages that precede the formulary, an attempt has