The Functional Organization of the Involuntary Nervous System and Its Humoral Mediators
Authors: W. B. Cannon
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1933)

Article1 February 1933The Functional Organization of the Involuntary Nervous System and Its Humoral MediatorsW. B. CANNON, M.D.W. B. CANNON, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-6-8-1022 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptWe naturally think of ourselves as air inhabiting animals, but even a slight examination would show that we are separated from the air which surrounds us by a layer of dead cells in the outer horny portion of the skin or by a layer of mucus. All that is alive within these lifeless surfaces is bathed in a salty fluid—the"milieu interne", as Claude Bernard called it, or thefluid matrix, as we may designate it. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Read before the American College of Physicians, San Francisco, California, April 8, 1932.†From the Laboratories of Physiology, the Harvard Medical School. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDas Verhalten der Serumcholinesterase nach Myokardinfarkt 1 February 1933Volume 6, Issue 8Page: 1022-1032KeywordsCellsMucusNervous system ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 February 1933 PDF downloadLoading ...