Philip Showalter Hench was an American physician at the Mayo Clinic. With his co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and the Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein, he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, including the discovery of cortisone and its application to the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Hench first used cortisone to treat rheumatoid arthritis in 1948
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In Group: Hormone, Vitamin and Drug Discoverers, Introduction, sentence 2
Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for the discovery of the hormone cortisone, and its application for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
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