On the centenary of the term "hormone".

In June of 2005 the term hormone completed a life span of one century. The word that Ernest Henry Starling included in one of his four lectures to the Royal Society of Physicians of London, given in June 1905, definitively established the permanent representation in terminology for the products secreted by the endocrine glands. Various attempts by physicians and medical writers to replace the term hormone by others such as chalones (Sir Albert Schaefer), autacoids (W.R. Wardle), harmozones (Eugene Gley), have failed and have more or less been forgotten, none of these terms havimg been adopted universally.