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The Croonian Lectures on the chemical correlation of the functions of the body.

Lancet 2, 339-41, 423-25, 501-03, 579-83. 1905.

Starling constructed a general scheme of the “hormones” as he named the internal secretions. This is the first appearance of the word, which was suggested by W. B. Hardy.

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