An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: November 17, 2024

BAYLISS, Sir William Maddock

5 entries
  • 1294

On the origin from the spinal cord of the vaso-dilator fibres of the hindlimb, and on the nature of these fibres.

J. Physiol. (Lond.), 26, 173-209, 1901.


Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Peripheral Nerves / Nerve Impulses
  • 1024

The mechanism of pancreatic secretion.

J. Physiol. (Lond.), 28, 325-53, 1902.

Demonstration of the existence of secretin in the duodenal secretion. Preliminary note in Lancet, 1902, 1, 813.



Subjects: GASTROENTEROLOGY › Anatomy & Physiology of Digestion
  • 1373

Further researches on antidromic nerve-impulses.

J. Physiol. (Lond.), 28, 276-99, 1902.


Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Spinal Cord
  • 1121

The chemical regulation of the secretory process.

Proc. roy. Soc. B, 73, 310-22, 1904.

Bayliss and Starling developed the theory of hormonal control of internal secretion.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion
  • 658

Principles of general physiology.

London: Longmans, Green, 1915.

Bayliss’s book treats of general physiology from the physical chemical point of view. For some years it remained the most important book of its kind, and today is still of great value for its historical information and its accurate bibliography. A fifth edition, edited by L. E. Bayliss, appeared in 1959-60.



Subjects: PHYSIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology