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Philip Showalter Hench
(28 Feb 1896 - 30 Mar 1965)

American physician.


Science Quotes by Philip Showalter Hench (1)

These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.
— Philip Showalter Hench
'The Reversibility of Certain Rheumatic and Non-rheumatic Conditions by the use of Cortisone or of the Pituitary Adrenocorticotropic Hormone', Nobel Lecture, 11 Dec 1950. In Nobel Lectures: Physiology or Medicine 1942- 1962 (1964), 334.
See also:  |  Hormone (3)  |  Medicine (125)  |  Physiology (23)


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