“These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, ‘The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow’. ”
born: February 28, 1896 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
died: March 30, 1965 Ocho Rios, Jamaica
American physician who with Edward C. Kendall in 1948 efficiently applied an adrenal hormone ( cortisone) in the remedy of rheumatoid arthritis. With Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein ofSwitzerland, Hench obtained the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for discoveries regarding hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological results.
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