The Croonian lectures on the chemical correlation of the functions of the body : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on June 20th, 22nd, 27th & 29th, 1905 / by Ernest Henry Starling.

  • Starling, Ernest Henry, 1866-1927.
Date:
1905
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Credit: The Croonian lectures on the chemical correlation of the functions of the body : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on June 20th, 22nd, 27th & 29th, 1905 / by Ernest Henry Starling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    35 Much work still remains to be done in the elucidation of various questions connected with the origin, conditions of formation, and mode of action not only of the mammary hormone but also of the other chemical messengers which I have mentioned in these Lectures. But the facts which I have been allowed to lay before you will, I trust, serve to con- vince you of the great part played by chemical processes in the coordi- nation and regulation of the different functions of the body. If, as I am inclined to believe, the majority of the organs of the body are regulated in their growth and activity by chemical mechanisms similar to those I have described, an extended knowledge of the hormones and their modes of action cannot fail to render important service in the attainment of that complete control of the bodily functions which is the goal of medical science. Woman’s Printing; Society, Limited, 66 & 68, Whitcomb Street, W.C.