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Excerpt from Observations on the Structure of Muscles
When I recollect the many learned men who have given this lecture, I cannot but feel myself much ?attered by the honour of being named to that office; I feel, at the same time, my own inability to explain many of the phaenomena of muscular mo tion yet more its principle, the subject to which this lecture was originally confined.
The many, and perhaps insuperable, difficulties which oh struct our progress towards that knowledge, have led the ablest anatomists and physiologists, who have been called upon by this learned Society for their observations upon muscular mo tion, to deviate from the original intention of the founder, and instead of attempting an investigation of the principle, to ex plain the anatomical structure, and various phaenomena of muscles with which they were acquainted that by this means they might furnish data for future inquiries.
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