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“UAYLISS'S book is bv far his greatest contribution to science-much more important than any of his individual discoveries is his statement of his point of view.” These were substantially the words used to me by a very competent critic. At the time I wondered whether or not it were so, and I have often wondered since. Bayliss's investigations into the electric phenomena of the heart x and the salivary glands,2 into the conditions which govern the cerebral circulation,3 into the muscular movements of the alimentary canal,4 into the mechanism of vaso-dilatation,5 into the correlation of vaso-motor reflexes;6 his establishment of the existence of antidromic fibres in the mammal,7 his researches on the application of surface phenomena to physiological action,8 and the discovery of secretin these were his principal discoveries.
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BARCROFT, J. Sir William Bayliss, F.R.S. Nature 114, 474–476 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114474a0
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