Excerpt from The Sympathetic Nervous Sytem in Disease This book is based upon the Croonian Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1918. The kindly interest displayed in different quarters in those lectures emboldens me to hope that in this expanded and rearranged form they may prove of service. I have not attempted to give a detailed account of the anatomy of the autonomic or vegetative nervous system. Several excellent accounts are already in existence, but the mass of detail necessarily involved tends to give the general practitioner an exaggerated idea of its complexity. I have aimed rather to emphasize the main plan of the autonomic nervous system. This is simple, and its comprehension aids in the elucidation of many clinical problems. Nor have I attempted to describe in detail the reaction of the autonomic system to disease. Rather, I have chosen to illustrate its relations to a few large groups of disease - such as affections of the endocrine glands, of the digestive and circulatory systems, and glycosuria. The close interaction of the endocrine glands with the sympathetic nervous system on the one hand, and with the reproductive organs on the other, is a fact of paramount importance in the understanding of the emotional response of the sympathetic nervous system, and of the influence of emotion on structure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.