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CROONE, William (1633 – 1684)

CROONE, William (1633 – 1684)

1633 – 1684

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1664 CE

#575

De ratione motus musculorum.

Croone accumulated a large fortune from his practice; with it his widow endowed the Croonian Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians, London. He believed muscular contraction to be brought about by the action of a…