A treatise of the reason of muscular motion, or the efficient causes of the contraction of a muscle. Wherein most of the phænomena about muscular motion are explained / By Richard Boulton.

  • Richard Boulton
Date:
1697
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise of the reason of muscular motion, or the efficient causes of the contraction of a muscle. Wherein most of the phænomena about muscular motion are explained / By Richard Boulton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing of an Agile and Elaftick Nature, as far as they are able, and are permitted, always en- deavour to expand themfelves; and that when an Inftin® to perform Mufcular Motion, is carried from the Brain or Cere- bell, to this common Store- houte, they prefently leap out of the Tendinous, into the ficlhy Fibers, where they meet with active Principles of ano- ther Nature, fupplied by the Mats of Blood ; which two itrongly & mutually fermenting, ftufl up and tumifie the Flefhy Fibers ; whence proceeds the Contradtion of a Mufcle. Whea the -ContraG@ion ceafeth, he thinks that moft of the pureft “Spirits that remain, return into the Tendons, the other more impure
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