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Died. Dr. Philip Showalter Hench, 69, longtime (31 years) chief rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic, who in the late 1940s first used the wonder hormones cortisone and ACTH, administering them to rheumatoid arthritics with such spectacular results (one woman left her hospital bed to go on a shopping spree) that he won the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine, sharing it with two biochemists who had isolated the hormones; of pneumonia and diabetic coma; in Ocho Rios, Jamaica...
RHEUMATIC DISEASES. Ten years' experience has shown that hormones of the cortisone family, while giving temporary relief, often do as much harm as good in rheumatic diseases. But the Mayo Clinic's famed Dr. Philip S. Hench, pioneer (with Chemist Edward Kendall) in the extraction and use of these products, struck out on a bold new line. The natural pituitary hormone ACTH and the cortisone-type drugs, he said, must be viewed not only as remedies, but also as research tools. His new theory, based on observations of thousands of patients: it is neither a simple excess...
...Hench challenged his hearers with the defiant statement that they would probably be unable to accept his theory at this stage. But since he suggested that it applied, beyond rheumatoid arthritis, to several disorders such as rheumatic fever, gout, psoriasis and ulcerative colitis, he left them with much to ponder...
...CRIME, by Manning Coles (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.95), places Tommy Hambledon, the British Foreign Office's top raincoat man, in grave danger of being submersed in a barrel of water, sand, and quick-hardening cement. But the henchman who intends to put him there makes a false hench, and guess who ends in the barrel? The trail leads to Paris, then Dijon and points worse. Author Coles's story is diverting enough, even if some of his swashes are carelessly buckled...
...seven: Carl Ferdinand Cori (carbohydrate metabolism), Selman Waksman (streptomycin), Max Theiler (yellow fever), Edward Kendall and Philip Hench (cortisone), John F. Enders (virus propagation), Biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud (see SCIENCE...