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Paper, 'Preliminary account of the arrangement of the sympathetic nervous system, based chiefly on observations upon pilo-motor nerves' by John Newport Langley

Reference number: PP/20/31

Date: 1893

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Langley writes: 'I propose to give here a general statement of some of the conclusions which I have come to with regard to the arrangement of the sympathetic nervous system, reserving detailed treatment for a later time. As a starting point I take the distribution of the pilo-motor nerves in the cat.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology / Neuroscience

Received 21 January 1893. Read 9 February 1893.

A version of this paper was published in volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Preliminary account of the arrangement of the sympathetic nervous system, based chiefly on observations upon pilo-motor nerves'.

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PP/20/31
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1893
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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24 pages
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John Newport Langley

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John Newport Langley, Paper, 'Preliminary account of the arrangement of the sympathetic nervous system, based chiefly on observations upon pilo-motor nerves' by John Newport Langley, 1893, PP/20/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_20_31/paper-preliminary-account-of-the-arrangement-of-the-sympathetic-nervous-system-based-chiefly-on-observations-upon-pilo-motor-nerves-by-john-newport-langley, accessed on 15 January 2025

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