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"The English Malady: or, a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds"
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Date: 1733
"I have formerly suggested, that the best Similitude I can form of the Nature and Actions of this Principle upon the Organs of its Machin, is that of a skillful Musician playing on a well-tun'd Instrument."
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: 1733
"The most difficult Problem in all the Animal OEconomy, is, to give any tolerable Account of Muscular Action or Animal Motion. The Similitude of a Machin put into Action and Motion by the Force of Water convey'd in Pipes, was the readiest Resemblance the Lazy could find to explain Muscular Motion...
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
