ABSTRACT
A t th e en d o f th e nineteent h an d beginnin g o f th e twentiet h century , man y
physiologists wer e intereste d i n wha t control s pancreati c secretions i n respons e
to th e entr y o f acidi c chym e int o th e smal l intestine . O n e schoo l o f though t
believed thi s to be th e resul t of nerve impulses; however, a search for responsibl e
nerve connection s prove d t o b e fruitless . I n 1902 , W . M . Baylis s an d E . H .
Starling were abl e t o elici t pancreatic secretions int o th e smal l intestine b y inject-
