The Quest for Cortisone

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219 notes inTroDuCTion 1. h. Clapesattle, The Doctors Mayo (new York: Pocket Books, 1954), 144–64. 2. noAA’s national Weather service Weather forecast office, La Crosse, Wis., “The rochester, Mn Tornado of 1883” (Washington, D.C.: national oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), updated november 8, 2005, http:// www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/events/rst_tor1883.php. 3. Mayo Clinic, rochester, Minn., “Tornado strikes rochester—saint Marys hospital opens: Born in a storm,” Mayo foundation for Medical education and research, 2001–2007, http://www.mayoclinic.org/tradition-heritage/ born-storm.html. 4. Violated and unforgiving, Cascade Creek waited over 100 years to avenge this meteorological humiliation. unfortunately, the final reckoning came when i was training as a medical resident in rochester. Back in those days my wife and i owned a small gray cedar shake house with a backyard abutting the infamous creek, which by then was little more than a slow-flowing drainage ditch. our home was the gem of the neighborhood, an architectural classic located just a few doors away from the house in which Dr. Benjamin spock, the famous baby expert, had lived during his short tenure on the faculty of the Mayo Clinic half a century earlier. one fall evening, as we slept peacefully, Cascade Creek took advantage of unseasonably heavy rains to once again leave its banks. But this time there would be no whirling around in the breeze or flinging of fish. on this night the “nile of rochester” crept silently out of its bed and flooded our low-lying abode. As the house slowly filled with black water and dirt once bloodied by the victims of the tornado, my connection to the tragic event of 1883 was cemented. 5. Mayo Clinic, rochester, Minn., “Tornado strikes rochester—saint Marys hospital opens: Born in a storm.” 6. Mayo Clinic, rochester, Minn., “Tornado strikes rochester—saint Marys hospital opens: Winds of Change: An improvised hospital,” Mayo foundation for Medical education and research, 2001–2007, http://www .mayoclinic.org/tradition-heritage/winds-change.html. 220| Notes 7. Clapesattle, Doctors Mayo, 146. 8. ibid., 148. 9. Mayo Clinic, rochester, Minn., “Tornado strikes rochester—saint Marys hospital opens: Winds of Change.” 10. G. rienzi, “Celebrating a Dual Legacy of a Johns hopkins Luminary,” JHU Gazette 34, no. 9 (october 25, 2004). 11. Mayo Clinic, rochester, Minn., “Tornado strikes rochester—saint Marys hospital opens: Partnering with the sisters of saint francis,” Mayo foundation for Medical education and research, 2001-2007, http://www.mayoclinic .org/tradition-heritage/partnering-sisters.html. 12. Mayo Clinic, rochester, Minn., “Tornado strikes rochester—saint Marys hospital opens: The new saint Marys hospital,” Mayo foundation for Medical education and research, 2001–2007, http://www.mayoclinic.org/ tradition-heritage/new-saint-marys.html 13. Clapesattle, Doctors Mayo, 118, 122. 14. M. W. King, “The Medical Biochemistry Page” (indianapolis: indiana university school of Medicine, 1996–2009), updated January 20, 2009, http:// www.themedicalbiochemistrypage.org/steroid-hormones.html. 15. history Channel Web site, “hormone,” A&e Television networks, 1996– 2008, http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleiD=212147. 16. s. Whitehead, “editorial,” Endocrinologist 75 (spring 2005), http://www .endocrinology.org/sfe/endocrinologist/end07502.pdf. 17. A. smith, “Lipitor: Cause for Concern,” Cnnmoney.com, January 19, 2006, http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/19/news/companies/Pfizer/index.htm. 18. J. M. schrof, “Pumped up,” U.S. News & World Report, May 24, 1992, http://www.usnews.com/culture/articles/920601/archives_017805.htm. 19. “Cortisone: The Limits of a ‘Miracle,’” Nutrition Health Review (september 22, 1991), http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1–11612074.html. 20. for example, a bigger dose of the same natural testosterone that gives Barry White his deep bedroom voice is another man’s one-way ticket to schwarzeneggerville. 21. A. smith, The Wealth of Nations (new York: Modern Library, 1937). 22. Thus the rationale for having each chapter begin with a scene-setting quote by sherlock holmes—hench turns out to be one of the world’s leading authorities on the fabled detective. other characters and events, some of whom may (initially) seem, like holmes, to be tangential to the cortisone story are similarly included for the relevant perspective, context, or background they provide. Notes| 221 ChAPTer 1. ADDison AnD his DiseAse 1. C. D. Wehner, “Curriculum Vitae: The real Addison’s Disease,” 2001, http:// wehner.org/addison/CV/index.htm. 2. on June 29, 1861—a year to the day after the death of Thomas Addison—a seminal event in...