An enquiry into the probability and rationality of Mr. Hunter's theory of life, being the subject of two anatomical lectures delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, of London / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1814
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Credit: An enquiry into the probability and rationality of Mr. Hunter's theory of life, being the subject of two anatomical lectures delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, of London / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at various places. Yet the vessels of some muscles are too minute to receive red blood or our coloured injections, so that redness though a common is not an es- sential character of muscle. I here willingly relinquish the enquiry into the structure of those organs in which the irritable property chiefly re- sides, in order, in the next place, to speak of the principal phaenomena of irrita- bility. Muscles have the power of contracting with surprizing celerity and force. It seems indeed wonderful that the biceps muscle of the arm, which in the dead state would be torn by the weight of a tew' ounces appended to it, shall in the living state be capable of lifting and sus- taining more than 100 lbs. The matter in the muscle seems neither to be m-