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.

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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 for pioneering kidney research including the Rowntree test for kidney function; dialysis; the intravenous pyelogram and plasmapheresis. Rowntree was awarded the Medal for Merit in 1946. Five letters of introduction from Louis Blanchard Wilson (December 22, 1866 – October 5, 1943) an American pathologist and the chief of pathology at Mayo Clinic from 1905 to 1937. Wilson is most famous for initiating the routine use of the frozen section procedure for rapid intraoperative diagnosis. One letter of introduction from Daniel P. O'Brien of The Rockefeller Foundation.

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