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

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

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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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University of Virginia. Library

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Mayo Clinic.

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Kendall, Edwin Calvin, 1886-

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Born in Gloucester County, Va., Walter Reed received an M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1869 and another M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1871. He joined the Army Medical Corps in 1876. Reed served in many areas throughout the country, including Fort Lowell, Az., and Baltimore, before becoming professor of bacteriology at the Army Medical School in 1893. During the Spanish-American War he sought a cure for typhoid fever in Cuba. After the war, he remained in Cuba with the Y...

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

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American fiction writer. From the description of Papers of William Faulkner [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809728 From the description of Jacket, [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647811922 From the description of Uncorrected galley proof of The Faulkner reader [manuscript], 1954 April 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809700 From the description of Photograph, 1962 Mar. 2...

Lazear, Jesse William, 1866-1900

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The U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission (1900-1901) was a board of physicians that the U.S. government formed in order to determine how yellow fever was transmitted between hosts. Ultimately, the commission's experiments in Cuba proved that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever--a discovery that would spur successful campaigns to control and eradicate yellow fever throughout much of the globe. When Major Walter Reed and Acting Assistant Surgeons James Carroll, Aristides Agramon...

Hench, Jacob Bixler, 1863-1930.

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Hench, John B.

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Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896

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Swedish chemist; founder of the Nobel prizes. From the description of Autograph letter signed : San Remo, to Oscar LjungstroĢˆm in Stockholm, 1896 Mar. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610818 Swedish manufacturer & inventor; founded Nobel prizes. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Wirth & Co. in Frankfurt a. M., 1885 Jun. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610661 ...

Hench, Clara John Showalter, 1865-1944.

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Hench, Mary Genevieve Kahler.

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Hench, Philip S. (Philip Showalter), 1896-1965

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Physician, medical researcher and writer, Nobel Prize winner. From the description of Papers of Philip Showalter Hench [manuscript] 1915-1964. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647995538 From the description of Papers of Philip Showalter Hench [manuscript] 1903-64. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647965926 Philip Showalter Hench was a physician most closely related to the Mayo Clinic. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 28, ...

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