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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

STUART, Alexander (1673 – 1742)

1673 – 1742

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1738

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Dissertatio de structura et motu musculari.

STUART, Alexander (1673 – 1742)

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 fa…