Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2312

ALBERT KUNTZ (1879-1957) The autonomic nervous system. Lea & Febiger 1929 xii [17]-576 pp., 1 plate (front.), 69 illus. 23.3 cm.

Kuntz, a native of Batesville, Indiana, received a doctorate in anatomy from the University of Iowa in 1910 and a medical degree from St. Louis University in 1918. He joined the anatomy faculty at St. Louis University in 1913 and eventually became professor and head of the department. His chief research interest was in the autonomic nervous system and he wrote many articles and several books on various aspects of its anatomy, pathology, and surgery. This book was his first major monograph and concentrates primarily on the development, anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the autonomic nervous system. A popular and widely used work, it had reached the fourth edition in 1953.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1334 (2nd ed., 1934)