I would like to know who os the founder od autonomic nervous system and history of .

-- U Thi Tar (thelibrary@iomnoka.com.mm), February 16, 2005

Answers

According to the website at http://home.datacomm.ch/mhari/timetable.htm, John Newport Langley functionally distinguished and described the autonomic nervous system in 1921. According to the article at http://psychology.uchicago.edu/socpsych/faculty/jtcreprints/bsc.ans.03.pdf, Walter Canon (in Wisdom of the Body, 1939) first argued that it was specialized for homeostasis.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), February 17, 2005.

For additional information, see:

Finger, S. (1994) Originas of neuroscience. Oxford University Press: New York.

-- Roger K. Thomas (rkthomas@uga.edu), February 18, 2005.