“…For example, successful pharmaceutical formulations for oral administration have been prepared by coating a drug, embedding it in a wax-fat vehicle or porous plastic base, binding the active substance to ion exchange resins, complexing it with a colloidal material, fusing it into a pellet, or encapsulating it (Lazarus and Cooper, 1961). Also pharmaceutical formulations have been surgically implanted into animal tissues where their hardness, insolubility, or other physical properties caused the active compound to be absorbed slowly into the system (Ballard and Nelson, 1962).…”