Twelve letters of introduction on behalf of Philip S. Hench (1896 – 1965). An American physician. Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950.
Dr Hench spent several months in Europe studying and observing. These typed letters, signed, are dated mid-October 1928. Six letters of introduction from Leonard George Rowntree (1883–1959) a Canadian physician and medical researcher who was credited with founding the research tradition at the Mayo Clinic.[1] He is most well known..... More