Fifty Years of Medicine
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receive attention when it creates a pattern than when it fills a conscious need, as did the suggestion that nerve fibers be classified not in terms of their anatomical distribution, but in relation to chemical transmission which Dale made to the Physiological Society in 1933 when he introduced the words "cholmergic" and "adrenergic"; words that have since become firmly established in usage. Quite appropriately this short note has been included in the collection. The usefulness of this new nomenclature was made abundantly clear in the Linacre Lecture given in the following May (1934) in the Physiological Laboratory at Cambridge when Dale reviewed the evidence for chemical transmission at neuroeffector and synaptic junctions and classified them, so far as the evidence permitted at that time, as adrenergic and cholinergic. This lecture was the first of a series of review-lectures Dale gave on chemical transmission; the last, given at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in 1937 (The William Henry Welch Lecture), presents the results of the rapid advances made at Dale's laboratories at the National Institute for Medical Research in Hempstead in the intervening three years and records the position at the time when he ceased to take an active part in th development of the subject. These lectures were selected for inclusion in the Adventures along with two others, The Croonian of the Royal Society (1920) on the Biological Significance of Amaphylaxis and the Croonian of the Royal College of Physicians (1929) on some chemical factors in the control of the circulation. The lecture titles give some evidence of Sir Henry's versatility and his breadth of interest, but reference to the bibliography of his works at the end of the volume indicates a still wider range of topics that engaged his attention-capillary circulation, acid-base balance in blood, insulin, as well as dorsal root fibers in the frog. A well-chosen photograph of Sir Henry forms the frontispiece of this record of his researches, or Adventures, as he has preferred to call them. By any title they form an impressive, valuable record that is, in this book, made of easy access to contemporaries and those to follow.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 27 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1954