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Hench, Philip Showalter, 1896-1965. Papers of Philip Showalter Hench [manuscript] 1903-64.

Title: Papers of Philip Showalter Hench [manuscript] 1903-64.

Letters, post cards, photographs, printed magazine and journal articles by and about Hench from childhood through his medical career on the staff of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Chiefly material sent to Hench's brother, Atcheson Laughlin Hench and includes much family news of Hench's wife, Mary Genevieve Kahler Hench, and his children: Mary Showalter Hench Henty, Philip Kahler Hench, Susan Kahler Hench Bowis, and John Bixler Hench, as well as his father, Jacob Bixler Hench and his mother, Clara John Showalter Hench. Many of the letters include comments on his extensive travels in Europe, South America, and the Carribbean, particularly Cuba. Topics of interest include the naming of palinoromic rheumatism, the development of cortisone with Edwin Calvin Kendall, Hench's co-winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. Extensive material and photographs of the 1950 Nobel awards ceremony (especially of William Faulkner) and of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, and the Nobel Prizes in general. Much material concerns Hench's interest in Walter Reed, James Carroll, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Jesse William Lazear, and the conquering of yellow fever. Other material reflects Hench's interest in opera, in Sherlock Holmes, and Hench's appearance for Merck and Company, Inc., before the U.S. Congress, Senate, Sub-committee on Anti Trust and Monopolies of Estes Kefauver, which was investigating during the drug industry.

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