Foreword

We are delighted to have the privilege of continuing the tradition begun by Herb

Lieberman and Leon Lachman, and later joined by Joseph Schwartz, of providing the

only comprehensive treatment of the design, formulation, manufacture and evaluation of

the tablet dosage form in Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms: Tablets. Today the tablet continues to be the dosage form of choice. Solid dosage forms constitute about two-

thirds of all dosage forms, and about half of these are tablets.