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Rheumatology 2002; 41: 582-584
© 2002 British Society for Rheumatology

Heberden Historical Series

Philip Showalter Hench, 1896–1965

Heberden Historical Series-Series Editor: M. Jayson

M. Lloyd

Department of Rheumatology, Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, Surrey GU16 5UJ, UK

Philip Hench was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 2 February 1896 to Jacob Bixler Hench and Clara Showalter. Best known for his work in the development of cortisone, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in 1950, Hench was also a highly regarded clinician, teacher and medical historian.

Hench graduated from Lafayette College in 1916 and then enlisted in the medical corps of the US army, completing his medical training at Pittsburgh University in 1920. In 1922, ‘by an accident of fate’, he became the first medical resident at St Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. It was here that the Mayo Clinic's first rheumatic disease service was established and by 1928 Hench had become its head, spending the following year studying in Germany. He fell in love with and married Mary Kahler, daughter of the founder of Rochester's other hospital system, John Kahler. Eventually Hench became vice-president of the Kahler . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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