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Frederick Tisdall. Frederick Fitzgerald Tisdall (3 November 1893– 23 April 1949 [1]) was one of three Canadian pediatricians who developed the infant cereal Pablum. He first started working at The Hospital for Sick Children in 1921. In 1929, he was made Director of the Nutritional Research Laboratories. [2]
Pablum was developed in 1930 by Canadian pediatricians Frederick Tisdall, Theodore Drake, and Alan Brown, [1] in collaboration with nutrition laboratory technician Ruth Herbert (all of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto), along with Mead Johnson chemist Harry H. Engel. [2]
In 1923, he, along with physicians Alan Brown and Frederick Tisdale, helped work out the formula for Pablum, a processed cereal for children.The cereal marked a breakthrough in nutritional science as it helped prevent rickets, a crippling childhood disease, by ensuring that children have enough vitamin D in their diet.
Dr. Percy Moore and Dr. Frederick Tisdall remained the primary researchers of the study. [4] A primary goal of the study was to investigate "possible methods for augmenting or improving the food supplies of the Bush Indians". [4] In 1948, as a part of a press release promoting the nutritional study, Indian Affairs stated: [4]
Nanaimo bar – a dessert bar that requires no baking, invented in Nanaimo around 1953. Pablum – infant cereal, invented by Frederick Tisdall, Theodore Drake, and Allan Brown in 1930. [11] Peanut butter – Canadian chemist Marcellus Gilmore Edson patented a way to make "peanut paste", also known as peanut butter in 1884. [12]
In 1937, Donald Hings invented what would become the Walkie-talkie. On the domestic scene, Herbert McCool invented Easy-Off Oven Cleaner in Regina in 1932 [3] and Frederick F. Tisdall, M.D., T. G. H. Drake, M.B., Pearl Summerfeldt, M.B., and Alan Brown, M.B. of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, invented pablum in 1930.
Here, in 1930, the researchers Alan Brown, Fred Tisdall, and Theo Drake invented what became known as Pablum, a pre-cooked baby cereal that has saved the lives of thousands of children. In 1934, Tisdall and Drake demonstrated the benefits of enriching milk with vitamin D.
Pablum Babies of the world have Canadian pediatrician Frederick Tisdall and his collaborators to thank for the popular ready-to-eat cereal Pablum. Developed as a healthy yet tasty solid food, its sales have raised millions for pediatric research.