1. Ernest Starling wrote the leading textbook of physiology in English, which ran through 20 editions.
24 Facts About Ernest Starling
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Ernest Starling became a medical student at Guy's Hospital, London, in 1882.
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Ernest Starling had a brilliant career there and set his sights on becoming a Harley Street physician.
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Guy's had no physiological laboratories, but Ernest Starling's enthusiasm changed all this, and he published nine papers on lymph and capillary function between 1893 and 1897.
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Ernest Starling was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.
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Ernest Starling enjoyed collaborating with William Bayliss, who was on the staff of University College London, and together they published on the electrical activity of the heart and on peristalsis.
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In 1891, when he was 25, Ernest Starling married Florence Amelia Wooldridge, the widow of Leonard Charles Wooldridge, who had been his physiology teacher at Guy's and died at the age of 32.
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Ernest Starling was a great support to Starling as a sounding board, secretary, and manager of his affairs as well as mother of their four children.
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When Ernest Starling was appointed professor at UCL in 1899, the scientific family was even closer.
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Bayliss and Ernest Starling were in the newspaper's headlines when involved in the Brown Dog affair, a controversy relating to vivisection.
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Bayliss and Ernest Starling investigated pancreatic secretion, which at that time was believed to be entirely under nervous control.
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Ernest Starling felt passionately about many subjects, one of which was medical education.
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Ernest Starling found the lack of science behind medical practice intolerable, and when in 1910 a Royal Commission was set up to improve medical education, Starling was an enthusiastic contributor.
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The physiological discovery most often associated with Ernest Starling is the Law of the Heart.
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Ernest Starling was unaware of previous work by a German physiologist, Otto Frank, using the isolated frog heart.
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Ernest Starling resigned from the army in June 1917 and finally was able to undertake war work that utilized his abilities.
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Ernest Starling was especially outspoken on public school education.
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In 1920, Ernest Starling was found to have colonic cancer, and the surgeon Arbuthnot Lane removed half of his colon.
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Ernest Starling was first proposed for the prize in 1913 by Otto Loewi.
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The assessor, J E Johansson, decided that Starling should receive the prize, but not yet.
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In 1926, Ernest Starling was proposed again, this time for his work on the kidney.
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Ernest Starling had forgotten that it was he who had put Starling's work on the back burner in 1913.
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The exact circumstances of Ernest Starling's death are far from clear.
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Ernest Starling's death marked the end of an outstanding contributor to medical science.