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A treatise of the reason of muscular motion, or, The efficient causes of the contraction of a muscle wherein most of the phaenomena about muscular motion are explained / by Richard Boulton.
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Boulton, Richard, b. 1676 or 7.
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1697
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Wing B3833; ESTC R26545
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continually laid down to serment with it by which means it is Subdued in this part before it arrives at such a State of Activity of such a Quantity as to cause irregular Fermentations and Contractions in other Parts In a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Muscles continue constantly contracted against our Appetite these Distempers seize People whose Blood is rather of a Vitriolick Tenacious Nature and impregnated with more Fermentative Spirits so that by reason of the Viscidity of the Matter violently forced into the Fibers either the Lymphaeducts are obstructed or by reason of a continual Fermentation Matter gradually succeeds In the Cramp the Fermentation is different from that which is Natural or in other Convulsive Motions that which is Natural being caused by the Animal Spirits preparing a Subtil and Homogenious Liquor In other Convulsions the Animal Spirits ferment with and endeavour to subdue a Morbisick Humour brought and layed down by the Arteries and the Matter thus attenuated is accidentally forced into the Fibers But these are caused by the continual Conflict of the Volatile Animal Spirits strongly fermenting with Fermentative and Elastick Particles of another Nature supplied by the Mass of Blood where both striving to subdue each other the Elastick Particles of the Blood more strongly oppose the Motion of the Spirits and the Spirits them by a contrary agitation and intestine Motion of their Particles and these Two being violently exploded and impetuously leaping into and fermenting in the Fibers cause most strong and painful Contractions The Subsultus Tendinum in Fevers are caused when the Spirits being too much exalted leap irregularly out of the Brain and raise the Fermentation in the Glands so high as to prepare and carry too much of the Subtile Liquor into the Fibers which because it is so very thin easily slips into the Lymphaeducts and makes the Contraction short I shall add the Reason only of one other Phaenomenon which seems more evidently to prove that Muscular Motion depends on the greater influx of Animal Spirits viz. Why the Contraction of one Muscle followeth when the Antagonist becomes Paralytick as in Spasmus Cynicus The Branches of the Nerves being derived from the Brain when the Influx of the Spirits into the Muscles of the one side are hindered they regurgitate and are driven presently in a greater quantity into the Antagonist as by the Loss of one Eye the other by a greater Influx of Spirits becomes more Acute This is evident and needs no further proof Thus I have laid down my Hypothesis of the Formal and Efficient Causes of Muscular Motion and how it is vitiated or depraved which I the more willingly commit to the Judgment of Learned and Competent Judges with due Submission because it seems to me to answer Natural Ends and to account for the several Phaenomena without the Difficulties Enormous Motions and Impossibilities which usually attend Hypotheses on this Subject not doubting but it will give satisfaction till one more probable and plausible shall succeed FINIS Books lately Printed for and Sold by A. 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Bp of Glasgow Published at the Desire of his Friends after his death 〈◊〉 his Papers written with his own Hand The Second Edition 〈◊〉 The End The Usefulness of Muscular Motion as it tends to the maintenance of life With respect to the Soul and its Functions A Muscle is a Noble part Dr. Willis's Opinion examin'd No Elastick Spirits laid up in the Tendons Nor instinct sent from the Brain because Either it implies that the Spirits are Intelligent Or that Spirits of a Different Nature are sent from it The Matter is not Intelligent No Spirits of a different Nature are sent from the Brain No active Principles heaped up in the Fleshy Fibers Nor retrocession of subtile Matter into the Tendons Mr. Cowper's opinion examined The Blood does not act as a Pondus The First Argument A Second A Third A Fifth A Sixth Dr. Ridley's Opinion examined The common Postulatum is not to be allowed There is no Retrocession of a Fluid from the Autagonist Nor is it forced out so as to cause a Vacuum Of the Structure of a Muscle The formal cause of the contraction of a Muscle Vessels implanted into a Muscle Their distribution And terminations in small Glands Proved What a Gland is Why they cannot be discerned The Use of the Nerves And Arteries inserted in the Glands To prepare a Liquor different from the Spirits or Succus The Use of it The Reason of Tonick Motion Objections Answered The Use of the Lymphaeducts The Nature of the Liquor consider'd and the manner of its preparation By Fermentation Proved The Arterial juice simply cannot cause the Contraction of a Muscle Nor the Animal Spirits Because the Arterial juice cannot pass into the Fibers till prepar'd by the Spirits The Reason of Involuntary Motion Proved How it comes to pass that the Systole of the Heart is interrupted with such frequent Diastoles Why the Muscles serving to Respiration are subject in some measure to our Appetite Why old People are subject to a trembling of their Head or Hands Another Phaenomena Explained A Third A Fourth A Fifth A Sixth The Reasons of Convulsions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of the Cramp Of the Subsultus Tendinum in Fevers Of a Spasmus Cynicus