Cowper, William: Myotomia Reformata: Or A New Administration Of All The Muscles Of Humane Bodies: Wherein The true Uses of the Muscles are Explained, the Errors of former Anatomists concerning them Confuted, and several Muscles not hitherto taken notice of Described ; T whick are subjoin'd, A Graphical Description of teh Bones, And other Anatomical Observations (London, 1694)

I The Introduction.
has already been propoled, and corroborate
my Conjectures with repeated Experiments,
than I had allotted my self for that purpose.
The sormer Anatomists being unacquaint-
ed with the Intimate slructure of a Musde,
and Use of the Pans which compote . it,
placed the power of Contraction in its Nerves,
or in its carnous Fibres only* , * .
The Accurate Steno conceiving the Flessry
Fibres, and opposite Tendons of Muscles,
to bear an Analogy in their Constructure to
psiTAllrtograms, imagines that an alteration,
of the Angles of their Ares may be made by
extension only of its Flelhy Fibres; and this
He supposed may be done without the Ac~
cession of new Matter.
Dr. Willis pretends that the Animal Sprits
brought by the Nerves, are lodged in the
Tendons of Muscles, which joining-with other
Particles of an Active Nature, supply'd
from the Bloud, make an effervelcence, by
which the Carnous Fibres are exagitated,
which being Lax ami Porous, are sluft, and
become Corrugated ; hence he supposes the
whole Muscle is also Contracted.
Dr. Mayow imagines the Contraction of a
Mufcle may be made by an efiervescence ari-
sing from the Commixture of Sulphureo-saline
Particles, secreated from the Mais of Bloud,
and Nitro-aerious ones transmitted by th§
Nerves. M*