A treatise on the mechanics of muscular movement. Galen examines how muscles contract and relax, how nerves transmit the impulse to move, and how the arrangement of muscles produces the coordinated movements of the body.
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The physiology of voluntary and involuntary movement. Galen examines how the will produces muscular contraction through the nerves.