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2. Bayliss L. 1961. William Bayliss, 1860–1924: Life and scientific work. Persp Biol Med 4:460–447. I have been able to find only the vaguest descriptions of the efficacy of gum-saline on the batde field. It was presumably superseded by blood transfusion after the Great War.
3. Bonner TN. 2002. Iconoclast. Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, p. 43.
4. Chapman, C. 1962. A copy of the death certificate is in Carleton Chapman’s “E. H. Starling—the clinicians physiologist.” Ann Int Med 57, suppl. 2, p. 17. The date of death on the certificate is given as May 2; the date of signing is May 5. The ship’s name is given as the SS Origani [sic]. In the column under “Signature, Qualifications, and Residence of Informant” we read: “I. W. McLean who caused the body to be buried. United Fruit Company, Harbour Street, Kingston.” This company was the agent for Elders and Fyffes, Ltd. McLean gave his qualifications as “MD, Maryland, USA.”
5. Dale HH. 1927. (Tribute to Starling) Brit Med J 1:905.