The autonomic nervous system / by J.N. Langley.

  • John Newport Langley
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1921-
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    the cell and more or less confined to the region of the nerve ending, the synapse, when it is held that there is no continuity of nerve and cell and that the action is a physical one in the neural region, the receptive substance when it is held that the action is brought about by a chemical combination with a special cell constituent. REFERENCES AND NOTES. Winslow. Exposition Anat. de la Structure du Corps Humain. (Paris.) 1732. Johnstone. Phil. Trans. London, 54, p. 177, 1764. Essay on the use of the Ganglions of the Nerves. (Shrewsbury.) I771' Bichat. Rech. Physiol, sur la vie et la Mort. (Paris.) 1800. Anat. gen. and Anat. descriptive. (Paris.) 1801. Dastre and Morat. Rech. Exp. sur le Syst. Vaso-Moteur. (Paris.) p. 330, 1884. Gaskell. J. Physiol. 7, p. 1, 1886; 10, p. 153, 1889. Langley. Text book of Physiol., ed. by Schafer, 2, p. 694, 1900. Brain, 26, p. 1, 1903. Ergeb. d. Physiol., 2. Abt. 2, p. 819, 1903. Bayli ss. J. Physiol. 25. Proc. Physiol. Soc., p. xiii., 1900. J. Physiol. 26, p. 173, 1901. Gaskell. The Involuntary Nervous System, 1914. Pub¬ lished postumously. (London.) 1916. The terms I have used were first employed as follows:— Pre- and postganglionic fibres, Proc. Roy. Soc. 52. p. 548, 1893. Autonomic. J. Physiol. 23, p. 241, 1898. Axon reflex. Soc. de Biol. T. Jubilaire, 1899, p. 220. Bulbar and sacral nerves as one system, Brit. Assoc. Adv. Science, Pres. Address, Physiol. Sect., 1899; Mid-brain autonomic. Brain, 1903. Para¬ sympathetic, Address to Students of Med. and Nat. Phil, in Amsterdam, 1905; also J. Physiol. 33, p. 403, 1905; 43. p. 173, 1911. Gaskell (1886-1889) divided the nerves, and the tissues innervated by them, into two groups, splanchnic and somatic
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