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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Aspects Med. 2016 Apr 22;49:1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.mam.2016.04.007

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Walter Bradford Cannon (1871–1945)

The Harvard Physiologist who coined the term, Homeostasis in 1926 to describe and extend Bernard’s milieu intérieur concept (2). Homeostasis was subsequently popularized (in 1932) in Cannon’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of the Body (3).

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