Abstract
Summary
By means of Koelle's histochemical technic for cholinesterase, the same cholinergic innervation was found for the eccrine sweat glands in the volar skin of the human toe as occurs for the glands in the general skin of the body. This evidence, coupled with recent pharmacologic results in the literature, was taken to indicate that non-thermal sweating in the palms and soles was due, not to a hypothetical adrenergic innervation of volar glands, but to a primary control center in the central nervous system (possibly the cortex) other than the control center (the hypothalamus) for thermal sweating.
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