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  1. 1866-1927. English physiologist who
  2. discovered secretin and coined the word
  3. `hormone'. He formulated Starling's law,
  4. which states that the force of the heart's
  5. contraction is a function of the length of
  6. the muscle fibres. He is considered one of
  7. the founders of endocrinology.
  8.