Word: hench
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...broke up, the experts got news of yet another potential medical tool. Nobel Prizewinner Tadeus Reichstein of Basel University announced that he had isolated a powerful adrenal hormone which he provisionally called "electrocortin." Since the newly isolated hormone undoubtedly plays a part in the body's balances. Dr. Hench called electrocortin "the biggest thing" of the congress, but neither he nor Dr. Reichstein would prophesy as to its therapeutic possibilities. Whatever its potentialities in the treatment of arthritis and other diseases, electrocortin will probably not be available in large quantities for some time: Dr. Reichstein used...
...rheumatologists listened with respect to the U.S.'s Dr. Philip S. Hench, who shared a Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery and application of the wonder hormone cortisone. Granting that cortisone is not the "fountain of life" that many sufferers hoped that it would be, Hench inveighed against too much timidity in the use of the drug, which he said had raised "as many false fears as false hopes." In four years' use at the Mayo Clinic, he said, cortisone has proved effective in more than 50% of the thousands of patients receiving it. Moreover, experience...
...April 20, 1949, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Philip Hench made his first report on the Merck product, and a new era in medicine opened. Kendall and Hench shared a Nobel Prize for their part in the work: for the first time in his long rheumatic history, man could practically eliminate the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis...
...Philip Showalter Hench, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in medicine D.Sc...
Last week, for their work with cortisone and other adrenal hormones, Drs. Edward Calvin Kendall, Philip Showalter Hench and Tadeus Reichstein were awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine. In the three-way split, each will...