Reichstein t tadeus (1 risultati)

Pp. 243-258. Original wrappers. Upper corners of wrappers and pages bumped. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY T. [TADEUS] REICHSTEIN (on front wrapper). Offprint of Tadeus Reichstein's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1950. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 was awarded jointly to Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein and Philip Showalter Hench "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects." "Situated atop the kidneys are two small glands, the adrenal glands. Their function was unknown for a long time, but if they were injured, deficiency diseases ensued that ended in death. In the mid-1930s Edward Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein succeeded in isolating and analyzing the composition of a number of similar hormones derived from the adrenal cortex. These became the basis for cortisone preparations that, with input from Kendall and Philip Hench, were used at the end of the 1940s to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammations" (Nobel Prize website).…