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Ernest Starling

Ernest Starling Biography

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“In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.”

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Book:Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart
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“Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of 'the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,' and thereby to the mastery of disease and pain, which will enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.”

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Author:Ernest Starling
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