DeepDyve eBooks - A Life of Ernest Starling

Chapter 1Prelude

Henderson, John

Pages: 3 –12

[Ernest Starling was very much a product of British nineteenth century medicine; it was a century that witnessed profound changes in both medicine and medical research. Reviewing three relevant themes—medical education, the development of University College London, and the growth of physiology—...

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Chapter 2Hearts and Capillaries

Henderson, John

Pages: 13 –39

[During Queen Victoria’s reign, the British Raj provided employment for a marvellously wide range of expatriates. Among them was a barrister, Matthew Henry Starling, who was called to the bar in London in 1863, went to India in 1868, and spent the rest of his legal career in Bombay. There he...

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Chapter 31890–1899

Henderson, John

Pages: 40 –51

[The success of Starling’s research from 1890 to 1896 did not seem to make much of an impression on Guy’s Hospital. He had to re-apply annually for his poorly paid job and to be assessed by the group of clinicians who made up the Staff Committee (as revealed by the Guy’s Hospital minutes,...

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Chapter 4Secretin, Politics, and the New Institute

Henderson, John

Pages: 52 –76

[When Starling moved to his new department at University College in 1899, it occupied the top floor in the north wing, above the Slade School of Fine Art. (The north wing is on the left side of the quadrangle as one enters from Gower Street.) From its beginnings in 1871, the Slade had been one of...

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Chapter 5Starling’s Law and Related Matters

Henderson, John

Pages: 77 –98

[The heart is a clever pump. One of its tricks is to pump out exactly the amount of blood that it has just received from the veins. It manages this by automatically adjusting its volume and the force of its contraction to the recently arrived blood. The concept is actually quite an old one in the...

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Chapter 6Interlude: The Haldane Commission (1910–13)

Henderson, John

Pages: 99 –104

[Lord Haldane’s giant enquiry looked into many aspects of the University of London, but concerned itself especially with the organization of medical education. Starling was probably its most loquacious witness. The Commission’s evidence, taken from about a hundred witnesses, fills hundreds of...

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Chapter 7The Great War

Henderson, John

Pages: 105 –121

[Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo at the end of June, 1914, and Britain declared war on Germany on August 4. At that time the Starling family was living in London at “Penlees,” 40, West End Lane, West Hampstead: Ernest and Florence, with Muriel (age 21) Phyllis (20), John (16), and...

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Chapter 81918–1920

Henderson, John

Pages: 122 –136

[During the last few months of the war, when Starling was spending most of his time back at UCL, the Lancet asked him to review a book. It was The Report of the Committee on the Position of Natural Science in the Educational System of Great Britain: hardly a riveting title. But it got Starling...

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Chapter 9Back to Research

Henderson, John

Pages: 137 –154

[Ernest, Florence, and Babs rented 23 Taviton Street—some 300 yards from the back door of UCL—and moved there in March 1920. The family may not have been well-off, but they kept a cook. Florence makes it sound a cozy family ménage, describing herself and Ernest as “Darby and Joan” with music...

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Chapter 10The End of the Trail

Henderson, John

Pages: 155 –170

[Muriel and Sydney Patterson had gone to Australia in 1919, and their son Tom was born there in 1920. But they were not happy—partly because Sydney was not a natural administrator, and partly because Muriel, being literary and musical, found the place lacking in culture. (Sydney was known as...

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