Bernard Fantus

Bernard Fantus (September 1, 1874 – April 14, 1940) was a Hungarian Jewish-American physician. He established the first hospital blood bank in the United States in 1937 at Cook County Hospital, Chicago while he served there as director of the pharmacology and therapeutics department.

Biography Bernard Fantus was born to David and Ida (Gentilli) Fantus in Budapest, Hungary. As a child, Fantus was educated at Real-Gymnasium in Vienna, Austria. 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 United States. In Detroit, Michigan, 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 Chicago, Illinois. Daughter Ruth Fantus aka Valeri Gendron (December 14, 1913 – March 21, 1989): Adopted

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

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Contents Historical Introduction Tabellae Dulces The Uses of Sweet Tablets The Making of Sweet Tablets The Tablet Machine The Construction off Formulae for Sweet Tablets Choice of Flavor Subduing of Tastes Choice of Color Formulae for the Preparation of Sweet Tablets Formulae for Stock Preparations

In the book, Fantus includes sweet tablet formulas for the following:

Acetophenetidin Acetaminosalol Cocaine Heroin Aspirin Aconitine Anaesthesin Antimony potassium tartrate Antipyrine Apomorphine Arsenic trioxide Atropine Bismuth subcarbonate Bismuth subnitrate Caffeine Charcoal Cerium oxalate Chalk Emetine Lactic acid fermentation Ferrous carbonate Arsenic Iron Quinine Strychnine Nitroglycerin (drug) Urotropin Mercury chloride Mercury(II) iodide Hyoscine

In 1918, three years after the publication of Candy Medication, 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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Memberships American Medical Association American Pharmacists Association American Association for the Advancement of Science American College of Physicians Chicago Society of Internal Medicine National Formulary American Public Health Association Source: A laboratory manual and syllabus of lectures on pharmacognosy, pharmacy and prescription writing, An automatic method of prolonged serial blood-pressure registration in man 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 Candy Medication Chlorinated lime and halazone in the disinfection of drinking water Clinical observations on influenza Clinical observations on influenza Essentials of prescription-writing General technic of medication; an introduction to medicinal technology General therapeutics 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 The effect of salicylates on experimental arthritis in rabbits The physician and prohibition The rôle of alcohol in the welfare of the human race: from the standpoint of pharmacology and therapeutics The technic of medication; discussion of the methods of prescribing and preparing, the indications for, and the uses of, various medicaments. Useful cathartics; a series of articles on the use and abuse of cathartics with suggestive formulas and recipes. 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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