from my attending more to his tacts and 

 opinions than to his mode of explaining 

 them, that I have been led to form so 

 high an estimate of his intellectual powers. 

 I can draw no other inferences from the 

 facts than those which he has drawn, 

 and therefore am I a convert to his opinions. 



I proceed now to consider the struc- 

 ture and functions of those fibres which 

 constitute the muscles, in order to in- 

 troduce the discussion of the probability 

 and rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory 

 as a cause of irritability. Muscular fibres 

 are soft and readily lacerable in the 

 dead body, and even during life when 

 they are in a state of inaction. They 

 are composed of that insoluble substance 

 which we meet with in the blood, and 

 which, from its disposition to concrete in 

 a fibrous form, is called the fibrous part 

 of that fluid. The threads and flakes 



