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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 been made to
present the principles that have been used in the elaboration of the
formulae, so that formulae for other medicaments suitable to this form
of administration may be developed.

Concise directions on the care and use of the tablet machine have been
included, to enable any pharmacist equipped with an inexpensive tablet
machine to prepare these tablets without difficulty.

The author is keenly aware of the fact that there are probably still
some imperfections in the formulae given herein; though he has
spared neither time nor labor in making them as perfect as possible.
Therefore, comments and criticisms, as well as suggestions, are most
welcome, and will receive careful consideration.

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 ones.

                                             BERNARD FANTUS, M.D.

    _Chicago, March, 1915._




CONTENTS.


    CHAPTER                                                PAGE
       I. Historical Introduction                           11
      II. Tabellae Dulces                                   14
     III. The Uses of Sweet Tablets                         16
      IV. The Making of Sweet Tablets                       23
       V. The Tablet Machine                                27
      VI. The Construction of Formulae for Sweet Tablets    31
            Choice of Flavor                                31
            Subduing of Tastes                              31
            Choice of Color                                 34
     VII. Formulae for the Preparation of Sweet Tablets     35
    VIII. Formulae for Stock Preparations                   72
          References                                        75
          Index                                             77




CANDY MEDICATION




CHAPTER I.

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.


THE IDEA of presenting medicine in candy form is really very old.
The term confection, which originally meant a medicinal compound
being derived from the Latin word "_conficere_," to put together, has
been applied since the days of classical antiquity to mixtures of
medicinal substances with saccharine matter. The only official relics
of this once very extensive class of preparations are the confection
of rose and the confection of senna; both of which, however, are
also practically obsolete. The reason for this is not difficult to
find. Neither of them come up to our modern ideas of a confection.
We may officially call them a confection, but a youngster would be
disrespectful enough to disagree with the pharmacopoeia.

More closely akin to candy are lozenges, and yet they are not real
candy. The only one among them that is pleasant is the santonin
lozenge; and it is the only one that is popular.