Chester Keefer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Chester Scott Keefer was an American physician. He served as "penicillin czar" during World War II, responsible for managing distribution and allocation of the then-new drug for civilian uses in the United States, and was dean of the Boston University School of Medicine.
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- SIGNIFICANCE OF BACTEREMIA CAUSED BY STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS: A STUDY OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO CASES AND A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE CONCERNED WITH EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION IN ANIMALS (1941) (214)
- ANGINA PECTORIS: A SYNDROME CAUSED BY ANOXEMIA OF THE MYOCARDIUM (1928) (177)
- THE ABSORPTION, EXCRETION, AND DISTRIBUTION OF PENICILLIN. (1943) (156)
- PENICILLIN IN THE TREATMENT OF INFECTIONS: A REPORT OF 500 CASES (1943) (154)
- A Method for Determining the Concentration of Penicillin in Body Fluids and Exudates∗ (1942) (113)
- STREPTOMYCIN IN THE TREATMENT OF INFECTIONS: A Report of One Thousand Cases (1946) (86)
- THE BERIBERI HEART (82)
- BACILLUS COLI SEPSIS: CLINICAL STUDY OF TWENTY-EIGHT CASES OF BLOOD STREAM INFECTION BY THE COLON BACILLUS (1924) (72)
- RELATION OF PLASMA PROTEINS TO ASCITES AND EDEMA IN CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER (1935) (68)
- SIGNIFICANCE OF HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCIC BACTEREMIA: A STUDY OF TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX PATIENTS (1937) (56)
- Hemolytic Streptococcal Pneumonia and Empyema: A Study of 55 Cases with Special Reference to Treatment. (1941) (51)
- Cat Scratch Fever. (1951) (49)
- THE ABSORPTION, EXCRETION AND TOXICITY OF PENICILLIN ADMINISTERED BY INTRATHECAL INJECTION (1943) (49)
- GONOCOCCIC ARTHRITIS: PATHOGENESIS, MECHANISM OF RECOVERY AND TREATMENT: CLINICAL LECTURE AT ATLANTIC CITY SESSION (1937) (43)
- PENICILLIN: ITS ANTIBACTERIAL EFFECT IN WHOLE BLOOD AND SERUM FOR THE HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS AND STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS. (1943) (41)
- GASTRIC ACIDITY: RELATION TO VARIOUS FACTORS SUCH AS AGE AND PHYSICAL FITNESS. (1928) (40)
- The behavior of inorganic phosphate in the blood and urine of normal and diabetic subjects during carbohydrate metabolism (1923) (37)
- The Distribution of Hemolytic Streptococci Groups A, B, and C in Human Infections (1941) (37)
- ANTISTREPTOLYSIN CONTENT OF THE BLOOD SERUM IN RHEUMATIC FEVER AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. (1934) (35)
- Alterations in normal bacterial flora of man and secondary infections during antibiotic therapy. (1951) (34)
- ACUTE AND CHRONIC MEDIASTINITIS: A STUDY OF SIXTY CASES (1938) (31)
- DISSECTING ANEURYSM WITH SIGNS OF AORTIC INSUFFICIENCY: REPORT OF A CASE IN WHICH THE AORTIC VALVES WERE NORMAL (1925) (30)
- The pulmonary and pleural complications of aortic aneurysm (1934) (30)
- Liver Abscess: A Review of Eighty-Five Cases (1934) (30)
- SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS: ACTIVE CASES WITHOUT BACTEREMIA (1937) (29)
- The pathogenesis of bacterial endocarditis (1940) (28)
- STREPTOCOCCAL AGGLUTININS IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID (ATROPHIC) ARTHRITIS AND ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER. (1933) (25)
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANATOMIC CHANGES IN KNEE JOINT WITH ADVANCING AGE AND DEGENERATIVE ARTHRITIS (1934) (24)
- STUDIES OF GONOCOCCAL INFECTION. II. THE BACTERIOLYTIC POWER OF THE WHOLE DEFIBRINATED BLOOD OF PATIENTS WITH GONOCOCCAL ARTHRITIS. (1937) (23)
- HEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE BACTEREMIA: REPORT OF TWO CASES RECOVERING FOLLOWING SULFATHIAZOLE AND SULFAPYRIDINE (1942) (23)
- THE RESISTANCE TO FIBRINOLYTIC ACTIVITY OF THE HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATIC FEVER AND RHEUMATOID (ATROPHIC) ARTHRITIS. (1935) (23)
- The therapeutic value of streptomycin : a study of 3,000 cases (1948) (21)
- LATENT GONORRHEA AS A CAUSE OF ACUTE POLYARTICULAR ARTHRITIS (1937) (21)
- A METHOD FOR THE CONTINUOUS QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF GASTRIC SECRETION AND DISCHARGE IN MAN (1926) (21)
- STUDIES OF GONOCOCCAL INFECTION. I. A STUDY OF THE MODE OF DESTRUCTION OF THE GONOCOCCUS IN VITRO. (1937) (20)
- STUDIES OF HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION I. FACTORS INFLUENCING THE OUTCOME OF ERYSIPELAS. (1936) (20)
- STUDIES OF HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION II. THE SEROLOGICAL REACTIONS OF THE BLOOD DURING ERYSIPELAS. (1936) (20)
- Report of a Case of Malta Fever originating in Baltimore, Maryland. (19)
- THE EFFECT OF ATROPINE ON GASTRIC FUNCTION IN MAN: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY (1926) (18)
- STUDIES OF GONOCOCCAL INFECTION. IV. THE EFFECT OF MUCIN ON THE BACTERIOLYTIC POWER OF WHOLE BLOOD AND IMMUNE SERUM. (1938) (17)
- ANTI-TRYPTIC ACTIVITY OF SYNOVIAL FLUID IN PATIENTS WITH VARIOUS TYPES OF ARTHRITIS. (1935) (17)
- Toxic Reactions Following Sulfonamide Treatment (1942) (16)
- Evaluation of antibiotic therapy. (1951) (15)
- Anemia associated with chronic dysentery. Clinical considerations with special reference to the cause and treatment. (1931) (15)
- THE VALUE OF LIVER AND IRON IN THE TREATMENT OF SECONDARY ANEMIA (1929) (15)
- THE CLINICAL VALUE OF THE VAN DEN BERGH REACTION FOR BILIRUBIN IN BLOOD (1925) (15)
- GASTRIC MOTILITY AND THE VOLUME OF GASTRIC SECRETION IN MAN. (1928) (14)
- SKIN REACTIONS TO NUCLEOPROTEIN OF STREPTOCOCCUS SCARLATINAE IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATIC FEVER. (1933) (14)
- White paper on the therapeutic equivalence of chemically equivalent drugs. (1969) (14)
- GONOCOCCAL ARTHRITIS: A CLINICAL STUDY OF 69 CASES (1934) (13)
- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SYNOVIAL FLUID IN GONOCOCCAL ARTHRITIS. (1934) (13)
- JAUNDICE FOLLOWING PULMONARY INFARCTION IN PATIENTS WITH MYOCARDIAL INSUFFICIENCY: I. A Clinical Study. (1926) (13)
- Sulfanilamide: Its Mode of Action and Use in the Treatment of Various Infections (1938) (12)
- CLINICAL STUDIES OF GASTRIC FUNCTION (1927) (12)
- The Treatment of Nonhemolytic Streptococcus Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis with Penicillin (1945) (12)
- CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY OF THE STOMACH: SIMULTANEOUS QUANTITATIVE OBSERVATIONS ON GASTRIC SECRETORY VOLUME, ACIDITY AND MOTILITY (1926) (12)
- PENICILLIN—ITS PRESENT STATUS IN THE TREATMENT OF INFECTIONS*: THE NATHAN HATFIELD LECTURE XXIX (1945) (11)
- DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIFIC TYPES OF HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI IN EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETEEN CASES OF INFECTION (1942) (11)
- New Dosage Forms of Penicillin. Statement concerning Certifiable Penicillin Products, including Recommended Indications, Dosages and Precautions. (1945) (11)
- Sulfanilamide in the Treatment of Erysipelas (1939) (11)
- The Gonococcal Complement Fixation Test in the Blood and Synovial Fluid of Patients with Arthritis (1934) (10)
- The Renal and Dermatologic Complications of Gonococcal Infections (1937) (10)
- JAUNDICE FOLLOWING PULMONARY INFARCTION IN PATIENTS WITH MYOCARDIAL INSUFFICIENCY: II. An Experimental Study. (1926) (10)
- Cat-scratch fever; a disease entity. (1951) (10)
- Sulfathiazole Effect on Staphylococcus aureus in vitro (1940) (9)
- Acute serofibrinous pericarditis of undetermined cause. (1950) (9)
- Deficiency Anemia in Chinese, Responding to Cod Liver Oil. (1929) (9)
- Some Clinical Aspects of Deficiency Diseases (1931) (9)
- THE INHIBITION OF TRYPTIC DIGESTION OF CARTILAGE BY SYNOVIAL FLUID FROM PATIENTS WITH VARIOUS TYPES OF ARTHRITIS. (1935) (9)
- The Diagnosis, Treatment and End Results in Gonococcal Arthritis (1938) (9)
- LIVER EXTRACT, LIVER ASH AND IRON IN THE TREATMENT OF ANEMIA. (1930) (8)
- Bacterial Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract (1940) (8)
- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYNOVIAL FLUID IN VARIOUS TYPES OF ARTHRITIS: STUDY OF NINETY CASES (1934) (8)
- A Clinical Evaluation of Sulfamerazine (1944) (8)
- SULFANILAMIDE IN TREATMENT OF INFECTIONS OF THE URINARY TRACT DUE TO BACILLUS COLI (1940) (8)
- THE TREATMENT FOR SECONDARY ANEMIA: A STUDY OF THE RESULTS IN ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX CASES (1931) (8)
- Anemia Associated With Gastrointestinal Disorders: Clinical Considerations and the Value of Iron in Treatment (1931) (8)
- SULFANILAMIDE: A STUDY OF ITS MODE OF ACTION ON HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI (1939) (7)
- THE RATE OF GASTRIC SECRETION IN MAN. (1927) (7)
- The Role of the Various Vitamins in the Production of Anemia. (1929) (7)
- SULPHANILAMIDE IN THE TREATMENT OF GONOCOCCAL ARTHRITIS (1939) (7)
- STUDIES OF HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION. III. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI ISOLATED FROM PATIENTS WITH ERYSIPELAS. (1937) (7)
- Sulfathiazole Therapy of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia (1940) (7)
- PAROXYSMAL DYSPNEA AS A SYMPTOM OF SYPHILITIC AORTITIS (1926) (7)
- Serum concentrations of penicillin following the administration of crystalline procaine penicillin G in oil. (1948) (6)
- Collagen Diseases: Pathology And Clinical Course (1951) (6)
- New Dosage Forms of Penicillin (1945) (6)
- The Etiology of Chronic Arthritis (1935) (6)
- Antibiotics: yesterday, today, tomorrow. (1950) (6)
- The Treatment of Bacterial Meningitis (1941) (6)
- PRESENT DAY TREATMENT OF SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS: THE MINOT LECTURE (1953) (6)
- THE SEDIMENTATION RATE OF THE RED BLOOD CELLS IN VARIOUS TYPES OF ARTHRITIS. (1933) (6)
- Dosage forms of penicillin for systemic infections. (1949) (5)
- The Classification and Certain Pathological Aspects of Chronic Arthritis (1933) (5)
- STUDIES OF GONOCOCCAL INFECTION. III. A COMPARISON OF THE BACTERICIDAL PROPERTIES OF THE SYNOVIAL FLUID AND BLOOD IN GONOCOCCAL ARTHRITIS. (1938) (5)
- THE INCIDENCE AND PATHOGENESIS OF DEGENERATIVE ARTHRITIS (1934) (5)
- OBSERVATIONS ON GASTRIC FUNCTION IN DIGESTIVE DISORDERS (1927) (5)
- THE RESPONSE OF THE RETICULOCYTES IN SECONDARY ANEMIAS FOLLOWING VARIOUS FORMS OF TREATMENT (1930) (4)
- Pyelonephritis; its natural history and course. (1957) (4)
- Streptomycin in the treatment of infections. (1946) (4)
- THE IMMUNIZING ANTIGEN OF THE PNEUMOCOCCUS : III. THE PURIFICATION OF THE WATER-SOLUBLE ANTIGEN. (1925) (4)
- SULFADIAZINE; A STUDY OF ITS EFFECT ON HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI (1942) (4)
- CONTROL OF COMMON RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS (1943) (4)
- The X-Ray Examination of the Heart in Beriberi. (1929) (3)
- Penicillin and streptomycin in the treatment of infections (1950) (3)
- Clinical Experience with Streptomycin: A Study of 50 Cases (1946) (3)
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EDEMA OF THE FACE IN MYOCARDIAL INSUFFICIENCY (1925) (3)
- Sulfathiazole (1940) (3)
- Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections with Special Reference to Prognosis and Treatment with Sulfanilamide (1938) (3)
- THE TRAINING OF THE PHYSICIAN. EXPERIMENT WITH THE MEDICAL-SCHOOL CURRICULUM AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY. (1964) (3)
- Bacterial Meningitis Following Lumbar Puncture and Spinal Anesthesia. (1950) (3)
- Medicine: Essentials of Clinical Practice (1971) (3)
- THE USE OF SULPHANILAMIDE IN THE TREATMENT OF VARIOUS INFECTIONS (1938) (2)
- Sulfanilamide: Its Mode of Action and Side Effects (1939) (2)
- The Treatment of Staphylococcic Infections With Penicillin (1944) (2)
- Sulfanilamide and Sulfapyridin in the Treatment of Various Infections: Part I. (1939) (2)
- Home medication and the public welfare (1965) (2)
- Dr. Richards as Chairman of the Committee on Medical Research. (1969) (2)
- The Pleural and Pulmonary Complications of Carcinoma of the Esophagus. (1934) (2)
- A physician looks at drug information. (1966) (2)
- The impact of research and medical education on public health. (1954) (1)
- The heart in malnutrition and in potassium deficiency. (1959) (1)
- The Immune Reactions in Patients with Gonococcal Infections (1937) (1)
- Progress of therapy. (1961) (1)
- THE ANEMIAS OF PREGNANCY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR CAUSE AND TREATMENT (1930) (1)
- Medical education tomorrow. (1956) (1)
- What's ahead for internal medicine. (1958) (1)
- The diaphragm: some reflections on its function and its diseases. (1957) (1)
- Thrombosis and thrombophlebitis. (1958) (1)
- Epidemic Diseases in Wartime (1943) (1)
- Present day treatment of subacute bacterial endocarditis. (1953) (1)
- HOME MEDICATION AND PUBLIC WELFARE: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS (1965) (0)
- INTRODUCTION (1950) (0)
- Official statement concerning streptomycin. (1946) (0)
- Current status of antibiotic therapy. (1957) (0)
- Bacterial endocarditis: report of end results in thirty-nine patients. (1950) (0)
- DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF UNWANTED REACTIONS TO DRUGS. (1964) (0)
- The impact of antibiotics on American medicine. (1958) (0)
- Present day problems concerned with antibiotic therapy. (1956) (0)
- President's Address: The Climate, the Potato, and Clinical Medicine. (1964) (0)
- Alfred Newton Richards in Washington as Chairman of the World War 2 Committee on Medical Research, he brought penicillin from the test tube to full production. (1970) (0)
- Antibiotics Annual 1954-1955 . Henry Welch and Felix Marti-Ibanez, Eds. Medical Encyclopedia, New York, 1955. ix + 1154 pp. Illus. (1955) (0)
- Anti-biotic agents in clinical medicine. (1947) (0)
- The Interpretation of Laboratory Examinations in the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Part I. (1940) (0)
- Hypersensitive reactions to commonly used drugs. (1951) (0)
- The hospital, the medical center, the community. (1954) (0)
- Progress in antibiotic therapy. (1947) (0)
- CLINICAL pathological conference. (1953) (0)
- THE IMMUNIZING ANTIGEN OF THE PNEUMOCOCCUS (1925) (0)
- Antibiotic drug therapy. (1948) (0)
- The present status of the treatment of cirrhosis of the liver. (1950) (0)
- The selection of anti-infective agents in the prevention and treatment of disease. (1951) (0)
- Progress in antibiotic therapy. (1947) (0)
- Antibiotics up to date. (1952) (0)
- The future of the private practice of medicine. (1955) (0)
- Some current problems in the management of infectious diseases. (1957) (0)
- Uncommon Infectious Diseases in New England (1941) (0)
- Your I Questions answered (1953) (0)
- The medical profession and public health problems. (1954) (0)
- The Bronchopulmonary Features of Mitral Stenosis. (1959) (0)
- Tuberculosis of the Pericardium: A Study of Twenty Cases. (1936) (0)
- Clinico-pathologic conference: an illness affecting the lungs, liver and skin. (1955) (0)
- Poliomyelitis Conference at Rome (1954) (0)
- The uses of penicillin and streptomycin (1949) (0)
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS (1965) (0)
- Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis (essential brown induration of the lungs). (1950) (0)
- PNEUMOCOCCUS SEPSIS IN THE ABSENCE OF PNEUMONIA: REPORT OF CASE DUE TO PNEUMOCOCCUS TYPE 1 (1923) (0)
- AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT: ABSCESS OF MEDIASTINUM FOLLOWING ACUTE TONSILLITIS (1938) (0)
- Clinical experience with streptomycin. (1946) (0)
- Collected Works on Rheumatic Fever (1968) (0)
- The Interpretation of Laboratory Examinations in the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Part IV. (1940) (0)
- [Acute myelogenous leukemia]. (1947) (0)
- Pain, oral infection and antibiotics. (1967) (0)
- The Interpretation of Laboratory Examinations in the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Part II. (1940) (0)
- Collagen disease: pathology and clinical course. (1951) (0)
- Human ovulation : a symposium sponsored by the Lowell M. Palmer Foundation, inc., New York (1965) (0)
- Current concepts of bacterial susceptibility and immunity. (1959) (0)
- Pulmonary hemosiderosis; fibrinous plugs of the alveolar ducts and intra-alveolar osseous deposits in patients with heart disease. (1951) (0)
- Sulfanilamide and Sulfapyridin in the Treatment of Various Infections: Factors Influencing Prognosis in Pneumonia: Part II. (1939) (0)
- The clinical use of penicillin and streptomycin. (1946) (0)
- Current therapeutics. XLV. Terramycin. (1951) (0)
- Bacterial meningitis following lumbar puncture and spinal anesthesia. (1950) (0)
- The Interpretation of Laboratory Examinations in the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Part III. (1940) (0)
- Alumni News: November 3, 1965 v. 1, no. 3 (1965) (0)
- Antibiotics yesterday and today. (1952) (0)
- Dr. George Richards Minot. (1950) (0)
- Penicillin: Its Practical Application . Alexander Fleming. (Ed.) Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1946. Pp. x + 380. (Illustrated.) $7.00. (1946) (0)
- Book ReviewSubacute Bacterial Endocarditis. (1956) (0)
- SULFANILAMIDE AND SULFAPYRIDIN IN THE TREATMENT OF VARIOUS INFECTIONS. (1939) (0)
- STREPTOMYCIN: THE INDICATIONS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, MODE OF ADMINISTRATION, DOSAGE AND TOXIC EFFECTS (1947) (0)
- [Choice and use of chemotherapeutic agents and antibiotics in clinical medicine]. (1953) (0)
- Progress in antibiotic drug therapy. (1948) (0)
- Far Eastern lessons to American medicine. (1961) (0)
- Streptomycin; the indications, contraindications, mode of administration, dosage and toxic effects. (1946) (0)
- Some Aspects of Hemolytic Streptococcal Infection. (1935) (0)
- HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS IN WARTIME* (1942) (0)
- Antibiotic Agents: Penicillin and Other Antibiotic Agents . By Wallace E. Herrell. 348 pp. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1945. Price $5.00. (1945) (0)
- Status of Oral Penicilli (1945) (0)
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