Editing Sympathetic nervous system (section)

==History and etymology==
The name of this system can be traced to the concept of [[sympathy]], in the sense of "connection between parts", first used medically by [[Galen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://n.neurology.org/content/80/7_Supplement/S57.005 |title= Sympathy, Sympathetic. Evolution of a Concept and Relevance to Current Understanding of Autonomic Disorders (S57.005)|vauthors = Barboi A |date= February 12, 2013 |website=Neurology.org |publisher=American Academy of Neurology |access-date= December 30, 2022 }}</ref> In the 18th century, [[Jacob B. Winslow]] applied the term specifically to nerves.<ref name="pmid11619046">{{cite journal | vauthors = Olry R | title = Winslow's contribution to our understanding of the cervical portion of the sympathetic nervous system | journal = J Hist Neurosci | volume = 5 | issue = 2 | pages = 190–6 | date = August 1996 | pmid = 11619046 | doi = 10.1080/09647049609525666 }}</ref>

The concept that an independent part of the nervous system coordinates body functions had its origin in the works of Galen (129–199), who proposed that nerves distributed spirits throughout the body. From animal dissections he concluded that there were extensive interconnections from the spinal cord to the viscera and from one organ to another. He proposed that this system fostered a concerted action or 'sympathy' of the organs. Little changed until the Renaissance when Bartolomeo Eustacheo (1545) depicted the sympathetic nerves, the vagus and adrenal glands in anatomical drawings. Jacobus Winslow (1669–1760), a Danish-born professor working in Paris, popularised the term 'sympathetic nervous system' in 1732 to describe the chain of ganglia and nerves which were connected to the thoracic and lumbar spinal cord.<ref name="pmid18667826">{{cite journal | vauthors = Todman D | title = 'Autonomic' nervous system | journal = Eur Neurol | volume = 60 | issue = 4 | pages = 215–6 | date = 2008 | pmid = 18667826 | doi = 10.1159/000148695 | doi-access = free }}</ref>