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Muscles - history

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4 works

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    Minding muscle : the technologies of bodybuilding from the turn-of-the-century machine-man to the new millennium's ULTRAGIRL / by Jacqueline Brady.

    | Brady, Jacqueline. | Date: 2000
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    The illustrated history of physical culture. Vol. 1, The muscular ideal / Alan Radley ; edited by William Joyce.

    | Radley, Alan (Alan Stuart), 1964- | Date: [2001]
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    The history of muscle physiology, from the natural philosophers to Albrecht von Haller : a study of the history of medicine, with a summary in Danish / by E. Bastholm ;[translated from the Danish by W. E. Calvert].

    | Eyvind Borge Martin Marius Bastholm | Date: 1950
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    Muscle sounds in physiology, sports science and clinical investigation : applications and history of mechanomyography / Maria Stokes, Max Blythe ; foreword by Daniel T. Barry.

    | Maria J. Stokes | Date: 2001

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