A Life of Ernest Starling

• Main Author: Henderson, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
• Series: People and Ideas Series
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.

Ernest Starling (1866-1927) was pre-eminent in the golden age of British Physiology. His name is usually associated with his "Law of the Heart,” but his discovery of secretin (the first hormone whose mode of action was explained) and his work on capillaries were more important contributions. He...

Table of Contents:

• Prelude
• Hearts and Capillaries
• 1890–1899
• Secretin, Politics, and the New Institute
• Starling’s Law and Related Matters
• Interlude: The Haldane Commission (1910–13)
• The Great War
• 1918–1920
• Back to Research
• The End of the Trail
• A Life Surveyed.