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Opera omnia physico-medica. (Supplementum, etc) 9 vols.

Geneva: fratres de Tournes, 1740 – 1753.

Hoffmann of Halle was the most important of the Iatromechanists. He believed an ether-like “vital fluid” to be present in the nervous system and to act upon the muscles, giving them “tonus”.



Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, Medicine: General Works, PHYSIOLOGY
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