An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

KENDALL, Edward Calvin

5 entries
  • 1133

The isolation in crystalline form of the compound containing iodine, which occurs in the thyroid; its chemical nature and physiologic activity.

J. Amer. med. Ass., 64, 2042-43; Trans. Ass. Amer. Physicians, 30, 420-49, 1915.

Kendall isolated in crystalline form the thyroid hormone “thyroxine” on Christmas Day, 1914.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Thyroid, Parathyroids
  • 1150

Isolation in crystalline form of the hormone essential to life from the suprarenal cortex; its chemical nature and physiologic properties.

Proc. Mayo Clin., 9, 245-50, 1934.

Together with H. L. Mason, B. F. McKenzie, C. S. Myers, and G. A. Koelsche, Kendall reported the isolation in crystalline form of cortin ('C20H30O5)'



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Adrenals
  • 1151

A physiologic and chemical investigation of the suprarenal cortex.

J. biol. Chem., 114, lvii-lviii, 1936.

Isolation of nine closely related steroid hormones from adrenal cortical extracts; one of these was Compound E (C21H28O5) which in 1939 was renamed cortisone. With H. L. Mason, C. S. Myers, and W. D. Allers. See also the same journal, 1936,114, 613; 116, 267.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Adrenals
  • 4508

The effects of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis.

Proc. Mayo Clin., 24, 181-97, 1949.

Introduction of cortisone and A.C.T.H. in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With C. H. Slocumb, and H. F. Polley. Hench and Kendall shared a Nobel Prize with Tadeusz Reichstein (No. 1153) in 1950.



Subjects: RHEUMATOLOGY › Arthritis
  • 4509

The effects of the adrenal cortical hormone 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone (compound E) on the acute phase of rheumatic fever: preliminary report.

Proc. Mayo Clin., 24, 277-97, 1949.

Compound E (cortisone) introduced in the treatment of rheumatic fever. With C. H. Slocumb, A. R. Barnes, H. L. Smith, H. F. Polley.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Rheumatic Fever