Croonian Lecture:—The laws of muscular motion

Abstract

This is a lecture before the Royal Society on muscular motion and is a summary and discussion of what is known of the physical and chemical basis of the contractile mechanism of muscle, giving the common principle in all vital motion and methods of investigating muscle. The viscous-elastic phenomenon in muscle is discussed with its applications to man, and certain physico-chemical analogies, involving hysteresis in monomolecular films.