EM Tansey, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002489
1866–1927 English physiologist who worked on body functions and their regulation, especially the activity of the heart, and who, with William Bayliss, discovered secretin, a chemical messenger for which he coined the word ‘hormone’.
Keywords: heart; secretin; Bayliss; capillaries
| Further Reading | |
| Starling EH (1897) The Arris and Gale Lectures on some points in the pathology of heart disease: Lecture 1. On the compensatory mechanisms of the heart. Lecture II. The effects of heart failure on the circulation. Lecture III. On the causation of dropsy in the heart. Lancet i: 569–572, 652–655, 723–726. | |
| book Starling EH (1912) Principles of Human Physiology. London: J & A Churchill. | |
| Bayliss WM and Starling EH (1904) The chemical regulation of the secretory process. Proceedings of the Royal Society 73: 310–322. | |
| Chapman CB (1962) Ernest Henry Starling; the clinician's physiologist. Annals of Internal Medicine 57: 1–43. | |
| book Evans CL (1964) Reminiscences of Bayliss and Starling. Cambridge, UK: The Physiological Society. | |
| Michel CC (1997) Starling: the formulation of his hypothesis of microvascular fluid exchange and its significance after 100 years. Experimental Physiology 82: 1–30. | |
| Verney EB (1956) Some aspects of the work of Ernest Henry Starling. Annals of Science 12: 30–47. | |
| Wilson LG (1968) Starling's discovery of osmotic equilibrium in the capillaries. Episteme II: 3–25. | |
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