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Historical Bibliography Updated: March 31, 2020

Dissertatio de structura et motu musculari.

Publication Details

London: Samuel Richardson, 1738 CE.

This was the text of the first Croonian Lecture at the Royal Society. In it Stuart promoted a strictly hydraulic iatromechanism as a theory of muscular motion. This work was translated into English in 1739. Digital facsimile of the 1738 edition from Google Books at this link.

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Entry Number#11713
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/13914
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLdissertatio-de-structure-et-motu-musculari

Geographic Context

Publication place: London