Observations on the muscles, and particularly on the effects of their oblique fibres : with an appendix.

  • Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817.
Date:
1794
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Credit: Observations on the muscles, and particularly on the effects of their oblique fibres : with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER from Dr Haygarth to Dr Monro. Dear Sir, I am indeed much concerned, that the inaccurate hurry with which my anfwer to your letter was written, has given you the trouble of writing another. I did not then obierve, that the fragment of my former letter in your pofleffion wanted a few words at the conclufion, to render the fenfe complete. After “ E, F, G, H,” add, “ will they not bring the “ point I to touch F, and the point K to touch H ; and will “ not the two bones be brought into contact ?” On the farther fubjed of your enquiry, I have fearched with attention the notes taken at your Anatomical Ledures, which I have ftlll preferved, but without fuccefs. They are indeed fo very imperfect, efpecially on the anatomy of the mufcles, as to afford no decilive evidence on either fide of the quefiions you afk. Nor, 2dly. At this diftance of time can I recoiled any de- monllrations, or mathematical figures and arithmetical cal- culations to prove the more extenfive motion produced by ob- lique, than by ftraight mufcles. 3dly, Nor do I remember that you applied fuch demonftra- tions to the intercoftal, abdominal, occipital, or dorfal mufcles, or to the penniform mufcles of the extremities. But