Four lengthy letters and five shorter letters from Nobel Laureate William P. Murphy (1892 - 1987) to 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.
William P. Murphy was awarded, together with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1934 for the treatment of pernicious and hypochromic anaemia. The letters span 12.29.36 to 1.5.50. The earliest letters speaks of a patient with "true gout" and mentions that..... More