Prelude -- Hearts and Capillaries -- 1890–1899 -- Secretin, Politics, and the New Institute -- Starling’s Law and Related Matters -- Interlude: The Haldane Commission (1910–13) -- The Great War -- 1918–1920 -- Back to Research -- The End of the Trail -- A Life Surveyed.Ernest Starling (1866-1927) was pre-eminent in the golden age of British Physiology. His name is usually associated wit…