Lives of the First World War

Ernest Henry Starling CMG FRCP FRS (17 April 1866 – 2 May 1927) was an English physiologist. He worked mainly at University College London, although he also worked for many years in Germany and France. His main collaborator in London was his brother-in-law, Sir William Maddock Bayliss. Starling is most famous for developing the "Frank–Starling law of the heart", presented in 1915 and modified in 1919. He is also known for his involvement along with Bayliss in the Brown Dog affair, a controversy relating to vivisection. Other major contributions to physiology were: The Starling equation, describing fluid shifts in the body (1896) The discovery of peristalsis, with Bayliss The discovery of secretin, the first hormone, with Bayliss (1902) and the introduction of the concept of hormones (1905) The discovery that the distal convoluted tubule of the kidney reabsorbs water and various electrolytes Starling was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1899