1878

Dr. Robert M. Fuller of Philadelphia [b. Schenectady NY; 1865 graduate of Albany Medical College] publishes his first paper on the tablet triturate (molded tablet as opposed to earlier compressed tablet). His method “consisted first in thoroughly triturating the substances together, and second, in molding this trituration into divisions to which he had already given the name ‘Tablet Triturates’”; Wyeth first drug company to sell the product in 1880s (Rosales, 59n). First manufacturer was Fraser Tablet Triturate Manufacturing Company