17 Facts About Bernard Fantus

Bernard Fantus was a Hungarian Jewish-American physician.

Bernard Fantus was born to David and Ida Fantus in Budapest, Hungary.

In Detroit, Michigan, Bernard Fantus was an apprentice for Mr Leushner at Paul Leuchner's Drug store, who began training him in pharmacy.

Bernard Fantus received his Doctor of Medicine in 1899 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Bernard Fantus furthered his education by doing post-graduate work at the University of Strasbourg in 1906 and the University of Berlin in 1909.

Bernard Fantus received a Master of Science from the University of Michigan in 1917, where he had done research in Pharmacology with Professor Cushny during the summer of 1901.

Bernard Fantus married Emily Senn, a nurse who he met at Cook County Hospital, on September 1,1907.

Bernard 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.

Bernard Fantus recommends the No 25 Machine from the Whitall Tatum Company, which, at the time, was effective and inexpensive at only ten dollars.

Bernard 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 tolu.

Bernard Fantus suggests the addition of saccharin to lessen any aftertaste.

In 1918, three years after the publication of Candy Medication, Bernard 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.

Bernard Fantus was introduced to the idea of blood being stored as the Spanish Revolution 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, Bernard Fantus learned that storing blood was a rather simple process and that establishing some sort of laboratory for it in the United States would not be very complicated.

From that point on, Bernard Fantus made it his mission to establish a laboratory where blood could be stored.

Bernard Fantus thus spent years in the laboratory perfecting methods of transfusion.

Bernard Fantus secured permission, spread the word of the establishment, obtained a suitable room at Cook County Hospital, and put Dr Elizabeth Schermer in charge of the laboratory.