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Matter to fhew, that neither of thefe Sydems can 
account for Mufcular Motion ; and that fuch a Stru- 
cture would produce Confufion, indead of that mod 
regular and uniform Procefs we daily fee, in every 
Action of Life, if our intended Brevity would per- 
mit it ; which mud be obvious to every one in the 
lead acquainted with the Structure and Situation of 
Mufcles. Let us, however, conftder other more par- 
ticular Opinions in their Turns. 
* IX. 
The fird I fhall take notice of is the memo- £r.Cr° u neV 
rable 'Do&oiCroune s whofe Care for propa- * * imon ' 
gating the Knowlege of this Part of Phyfiology, is no 
Jefs laudable than evident, in his Foundation of thefe 
Lectures. He fhew’d a'good Example in his own Attempt 
towards an Explanation of Mufcular Motion, in a 
Treatife intituled, Ratione Motus Mufculorum* : 
Wherein, after a fhort Recapitulation of fome Opi- 
nions before him, particularly of thofe of Cartejius y 
Regius , 
This Treatife was published at London in 1664. in 4 to. and at 
Amfterdam in 1667, io izmo. and its being publifhed without his Name, 
occafion’d a grofs Miftake in the Publifher of Dr. Willis's Works at 
Geneva y whj printed it among that Author’s TraCts, notwithftand- 
ing there is a particular TraCt in the very fame Volume, known to 
be Willis' s own, intituled, De Motu Mufculari Medico-Fhy flea. The 
Editor’s Apology for fo doing is as follows : c Tr a datum de ratione 
c motus mufculorum , ( etji authoris anonymi) anatomic cerebri , ner - 
* vorumque deferiptioni ab excellentijjimo viro D. Thoma Willis, 
6 M. D. celeberrimo. injlituta, (ut alias, turn a materia affinit ate , turn 
<■ ab operis prajl antia petit as ^mijfasfaciam) quod in prior ibus editionibus 
* magno cum dodorum applaufu , & fme ulla t quod Jciam , clariffimi 
1 D. Willis que v ela y appofitus reperiatur? See the Geneva Edition 
in 4 tOy an. 1680. 
