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Item A history of muscle physiology, Volume III: 1900 to 1960(2021) Ullrick, William C.Item A history of muscle physiology, Volume II: 1870 to 1900(2021) Ullrick, William C.[INTRODUCTION; LAMANSKY; RADCLIFFE AND HIS IDEA OF ACTIVE RELAXATION] The first volume of this text on the history of muscle physiology (see: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42404) covered the long span of time from Hippocrates through the first seventy years of the nineteenth century. By far most of this time period was marked by the very slow development of the experimental sciences. But as discussion concluded in the final chapter of the volume, we saw a significant number of investigators of many different countries effectively engaged in producing a torrent of important facts on muscle histology, biochemistry, and mechanics. In less than a decade so prodigious did the amount of this work become that the present volume is able to cover meaningfully only the thirty year period from 1870 to 1900. [TRUNCATED]Item A history of muscle physiology: Hippocrates to 1850 (Volume I)(2021) Ullrick, William C.[PREFACE] The history of muscle physiology is totally inspiring. It is the enthralling drama of the human mind plunging into a dark unknown. In this book I have tried to capture the excitement that I have felt in studying the contributions of those who ha,·e gone before. A note on the basic structure of this book; I haYe found it undesirable to separate the developments of muscle science from scientific advances in associated fields. Very often the same individual would contribute to advances in chemistry, physics or mathematics as ·well as to muscle physiology. Moreover, progress in other fields has frequently dictated the direction of further research in myology. Therefore, to perceive clearly the flow of muscle knowledge during the period of history covered by this and subsequent volumes, an awareness of the unfolding of scientific thought in many different areas is necessary. Such is the background I have endeavored to paint as a supporting theme for this history of muscle physiology. It has been necessary to translate a great number of French and German articles in the writing of this history. And, as often has been said, a translation is like hearing a voice through a telephone. The words may reach the ear distinctly, but the quality of the voice is often distorted. I hope that I have held such distortions to a minimum. My goal in this has been to transfer the substance of the thought, not the idiomatic structure of the original. [TRUNCATED]