CHAPTER LXXVI 

 THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM 



THIS system supplies the viscera, vascular system, sweat glands, 

 erector muscles of the hairs, and intrinsic muscles of the eye in fact, 



Post-ganglionic 

 fibre 



Pre gangl ionic fibre 

 in sympathetic cord 



\ CeUsof 

 / lot. horn 



Pbst-ganglionic fibre, 

 in spinal nerve 



Pre-ganglionic fibre 

 in sympathetic nerve. 



Distal ganglion 

 in sympathetic^ 



Spinal 

 cord 



Fosb-ganglionic fibre 

 in' sympathetic nerve 



fbst-ganglionic fibre_ 

 in spinal nerve 



're-ganglionic 

 fibres in 

 white ramus 



Fibre in sympathetic cord 

 parsing through, two ganglia 



FIG. 457. DIAGRAM OF THE ARRANGEMENT OF FIBRES IN THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS 

 SYSTEM. (From " Quain's Anatomy.") 



all secreting glands and muscles apart from the voluntary muscles. 

 It consists of groups of nerve fibres of the splanchnic type and the 

 ganglia with which they make connection. It is so called because it 



