Three lectures on muscular motion : read before the Royal Society in the year MDCCXXXVIII : as appointed by the will of Lady Sadleir, pursuant to the design of her first husband William Croone ... being a supplement to the Philosophical transactions for that year ... / by Alexander Stuart.

  • Stuart, Alexander, 1673-1742.
Date:
1739
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Credit: Three lectures on muscular motion : read before the Royal Society in the year MDCCXXXVIII : as appointed by the will of Lady Sadleir, pursuant to the design of her first husband William Croone ... being a supplement to the Philosophical transactions for that year ... / by Alexander Stuart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [i] THE FAC ^HE late learned and famous E)r. Croune having obferved how much the knowledge of the animal o economy depends upon the do Brine of the nerves and 'mufcles, and how far the rational praBice of phyfic might be improved -by a more per- feB acoyuaintance with the animal oeconomy^ didy for the encouragement of thefe ftudies, form a plan for inftituting certain Lcdures to be read on fuch fubjeBs, in the Royal College of Phyficians on the nerves and mufcleSy and in the Royal Society on mufcular motion 5 which was left with his Widowy afterwards Lady Sadleir. In purfuance of which defign Jhe by her laf will bequeathed a yearly revenue of about fifty pounds^ out of her ejiate, to the faid Royal College, in truft for the purpofes above men¬ tioned. But an Hiftory of the lives of the feveral pro- fejfors of Grefham College, where Dr. Croune was many years rhetoric profejfor^ written by the learned and accurate Mr. Ward, his prefent fuccejfor in that provincey being now in the prefSy we may expeB farther particulars relating to this donation in that treatifcy to which I mujt refer. In the mean time^ the Royal Society having a fifth part of the faid revenue alio ted to them by the will for that endy free from all charges and incum- C b ] branceSy