Background
Drake was born on September 16, 1891 in Webbwood, Ontario.
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Theodore H. Drake
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University of Toronto.
Career
He obtained his university degree from the University of Toronto in 1914. He spent two years in residence at the Toronto General Hospital. During World War I, Drake was a medical officer
After the war he went back to the Toronto General Hospital where he eventually became head of the research institute.
In 1923, he, along with Doctor Alan Brown and Doctor Frederick Tisdale, helped work out the formula for Pablum. The cereal marked a breakthrough in nutritional science: it helped prevent rickets, a crippling childhood disease, by ensuring that children have enough vitamin Doctorate in their diet.
Although Pablum was not the first food designed and sold specifically for babies, it was the first baby food to come pre-cooked and thoroughly dried. The ease of preparation made Pablum successful in an era when infant malnutrition was still a major problem in industrialized countries.
During World World War II, Drake designed nutritional diets for Royal Canadian Air Force personnel as well as for Prisoner Of War parcels.
Membership
After the war, he was named a member of the Order of the British Empire for his work.
