Work
Walter Cannon began his career in science as a Harvard undergraduate in the year 1896. Henry Pickering Bowditch, who had worked with Claude Bernard, directed the laboratory in physiology at Harvard. Here Cannon began his research: he used the newly discovered X rays to study the mechanism of swallowing and the motility of the stomach. He demonstrated deglutition in a goose at the APS meeting in December 1896 and published his first paper on this research in the first issue of the American Journal of Physiology in January 1898.
In 1945 Cannon summarized his career in physiology by describing his focus at different ages:
- Age 26 - 40: digestion and the bismuth meal
- Age 40 - 46: bodily effects of emotional excitement
- Age 46 - 51: wound shock investigations
- Age 51 - 59: stable states of the organism
- Age 59 - 68: chemical mediation of nerve impulses (collaboration with Arturo Rosenblueth)
- Age 68 + : chemical sensitivity of nerve-isolated organs
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