By Dorothy M. Needham
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Oeuvres', ed. Cousin, p. 347, eng. auct. II, 2 16 Machina Carnis William Croone's first work on muscular movement, De ratione motus musculorum, was published anonymously in 1664. From experiments on nerve section Croone deduced that something (for which he still used the word spirit) necessary for contraction of the muscle, passed along the nerve from the brain. In his mind the word had a new connotation, reminiscent of the interpretation used by Descartes: 'As often therefore as I say the Animal Spirits, I mean the most subtle, active and highly volatile liquor of the nerves, in the same way as we speak of spirit of wine or salt..
The nerve was attached to a wire which passed out through a fine hole in the stopper of the tube. Movement of the wire caused irritation of the nerve and contraction of the muscle, but the bubble in the capillary scarcely moved - indeed it fell rather than rose. Then Francis Glisson, in his work De ventriculo published in 1677, described6 another experiment to prove that there was no increase in volume on contraction. In this case a strong muscular man inserted his arm into a large tubefilledwith water and carefully sealed except for a small glass side-tube; contraction of the muscles even led to a slight fall of water in this tube.
The single cause that makes a muscle shorten rather than its antagonist is that there comes a certain amount (it may be little) more spirit from the brain to it than to the other. Not that the spirits that come immediately from the brain suffice alone to move the muscles, but they determine the other spirits which are already in these two muscles to come out very promptly from one of them and to pass into the other; by means of which the one which they leave becomes longer and limper; and the one which they enter, being promptly inflated by them, shortens and pulls on the limb to which it is attached.