Discovery of Hormones in Human Beings

The below mentioned article provides a quick note on the Discovery of Hormones. The first hormone was discovered by the English physiologist William M. Bayliss and Ernest H. Starling in 1903. The term hormone was introduced by Starling in 1905. Properties of Hormones (General Characteristic Features of Hormones): (1) They are synthesized and secreted by living endocrine glandular cells within [...]