Born 28 Feb 1896; died 30 Mar 1965 at age 69.
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Born 28 Feb 1896; died 30 Mar 1965 at age 69.
American physician who was one of the leaders in American #rheumatology. He shared the #NobelPrize for #Physiology or #Medicine in 1950 for discoveries relating to the #hormones of the #adrenal #cortex, their structure and biological effects (with Edward C. Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein of Switzerland). In 1948, Hench was working at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He noticed that during #pregnancy and in the presence of #jaundice the severe pain of #arthritis may decrease and even disappear. With Kendall, he successfully applied an adrenal #hormone (later known as cortisone) in the treatment of #rheumatoid #arthritis.
