Bayliss & Starling, first discovery of a hormone, 1902

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. From November 21, 1901, to February 27, 1902. Vol. LXIX. London: Harrison and Sons, St. Martin’s Lane, Printers in Ordinary to his Majesty. April 4, 1902.
INCLUDES:
On the Causation of the so-called “Peripheral Reflex Secretion” of the Pancreas. (Preliminary Communication.) By W. M. Bayliss, M.D., and Ernest H. Starling, M.D. F.R.S. (pg 352).
This article is the first publication of the discovery of the first hormone (secretin). It is a landmark in the history of endocrinology.
 
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Maroon quarter cloth with paper over boards. Some sunning and rippling of boards. Black text label on spine. Library label on tail of spine and front pastedown. Ffep with marginal tears. Black and white and color illustrations, some with tissue guards. Scattered small marginal stains, mostly at top margin. Otherwise, clean, bright, and tight throughout.
 
Not in G-M but see Bayliss & Starling’s later publication of 1904 on the same subject, which is G-M 1121: “Bayliss and Starling developed the theory of hormonal control of internal secretion.”
 
"The work of London University physiologists Sir William Maddock Bayliss (1860 - 1924) and Ernest Henry Starling (1866 - 1927), first showed by their discovery of the substance that they called secretin that the secretions of some glands are regulated not only by nervous impulses, but also by chemical substances produced elsewhere and transported to the gland by the blood. This discovery opened up the wide subject of chemical regulation of metabolism." (Singer & Underwood, pp302-303).