Word: keefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unenviable job of deciding who should and who should not get penicillin was Dr. Chester S. Keefer, of Boston's Evans Hospital. He is chairman of the National Research Council's committee on chemical therapy, to which WPB turned over the rationing of the drug. Because it is especially effective in treating battle-wound infections, most of the meager supply (amount: a military secret) goes to the armed forces...
Trouble with gramicidin is that it also destroys red blood cells, once it circulates in an animal's system. Last week Drs. Charles Henry Rammelkamp Jr. and Chester Scott Keefer of the Boston University School of Medicine reported a hopeful experiment with gramicidin. Instead of injecting it into the blood stream they trickled a few drops of gramicidin right on the wounds of several patients with ulcers and skin diseases. One patient who had a leg ulcer for 15 years was cured in three weeks. The others recovered even more rapidly. But the doctors made it clear that...