Renewed inquiries concerning the spiral structure of muscle, with observations on the muscularity of cilia / by Martin Barry, M.D.

  • Martin Barry
Date:
[1852]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Renewed inquiries concerning the spiral structure of muscle, with observations on the muscularity of cilia / by Martin Barry, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

    3/36 (page 1)
    From the Philosophical Magazine for August 1852. RENEWED INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE SPIRAL STRUCTURE OE MUSCLE, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MUSCULARITY OF CILIA. BY MAUTIN BARRY, M.D., F.R.S * [With Two Plates.] [^X^HESE renewed examinations of muscle, extending over a A period of many months, were made in the house of the veteran Purkinje; whose judgement in the matter may be in- ferred, when it is stated that,—after what he had seen during that long period of almost daily demonstrations by the author, and the devotion of whole mornings to the subject with almost cveiy kind of muscle that could be obtained,—he translated an account of the same into Gennan, printing no fewer than sixty- eight pages.] Deprived for years of the pleasure of microscopic research by an affection of his sight, the author finds himself in this respect so far I'estored, that it does not appear necessary to deny himself that pleasure any longer. If he has erred in taking up the mi- croscope again, that is to say, should his sight be thereby injui'ed, he thinks he may well claim to be excused. Eor it could not be to him a matter of indifference that his researches on the structure of muscle had not met with the attention he had expected, and which the subject well deserves. He therefore felt driven to renewed research; and, after nine months of still more rigid investigation, does not find occasion to give up his former views. So far from this, indeed, his opinion that muscle has no other than a spiral structure has been even more confirmed. He has met with unexpected states * Communicatetl by the Author; being the substance of a paper translated into German hy Professor Purkinje, Foreign Member U.S., and by him communicated to Miiller's Archiv, Heft vi. 1850. A