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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

Essays on the secretory and the excito-secretory system of nerves.

Publication Details

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1857 CE.

Campbell saw in the sympathetic a nervous system related to secretion and nutrition and having intimate connexion with the sensory nerves. He coined the ter “excito-secretory” to designate his theory; although this term has fallen into desuetude, the same idea was more recently advanced to explain the action of certain glands of internal secretion.

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Entry Number#1327
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/1346
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Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia