On 13 April 1949, Philip S Hench (1896–1965) gave a lecture to an overfilled Mayo Clinic staff meeting in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, on observations of ‘The effect of a hormone of the adrenal cortex ...

Corticosteroids have been used in ophthalmology for almost 50 years. Hench, in 1949,1 was the first to report on the beneficial effects of ACTH and cortisone. His work was with rheumatoid arthritis ...

and Philip Hench in 1950. Subsequently, extensive original research contributed to the field and paved the way for new directions. Many questions on different aspects of steroidogenesis and steroid ...

The serendipitous discovery of cortisone catapulted the Mayo Clinic researchers to international acclaim. In 1950, Kendall, Hench, and Reichstein were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine “for ...

aDepartment of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA, bSection of Neurology, Christiana Care Health Systems, Wilmington, DE, USA, cDepartment of Neurology and ...