Candy Medication
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Researchers and graduate students in the history of medicine and pharmacy
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century pediatric clinical practice
- Instructors who need early modern medical texts as historical source material
- Collectors of public-domain medical literature interested in the evolution of the discipline
Not a good fit for
- Parents or caregivers seeking current guidance on pediatric medication
- General readers without a background in medical history who might mistake historical practices for current ones
- Medical students seeking a systematic modern pediatrics textbook
Reading tips
- Begin with the publication information and disciplinary classification to establish its status as a historical document before turning to the main text.
- Mark obsolete drugs and dosages or those conflicting with modern standards as you read, so as to avoid confusing historical with current practice.
- Read alongside surveys of the history of pediatric pharmacy, understanding specific practices within the compounding and regulatory context of their time.
- If citing in academic work, prioritize its historical viewpoints and textual formulations rather than treating it as a clinical basis.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Bernard Fantus (1874–1940) was an American physician who established a hospital blood bank in Chicago, laying the foundation for the modern blood transfusion system. Working in clinical medicine, he contributed to the shift of transfusion from scattered procedures toward an institutionalized and routine practice, giving the collection, storage and clinical use of blood an organized framework to follow. Beyond his medical practice, he wrote Candy Medication, a book on administering medicine in palatable forms such as candy; aimed at practical use, it reflects his inclination to turn professional medical knowledge into easily applied methods. Public information about his life and academic career is limited, and the main confirmed facts are the medical contribution described above and this single work.
