Tentamen Physiologicum Inaugurale, de Actione Musculari; Quod, . Pro Gradu Doctoris, . Eruditorum Examini Subjicit

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40p+xxxi pags of experiments.], 39 p. Latin text. An early dissertation on the movement of muscles by one Thomas Smith for the purpose of his doctorate. From "Willaim Cullen dot net":Thomas Smith (Edin. 1767) and his celebrated Inaugural Dissertation - Cullen, in his lectures on the Institutions of Medicine, speaks favourably of one of his pupils (and friends), a certain Mr. Thomas Smith. Smith published an Inaugural Dissertation in 1767 entitled de Actione Musculari to obtain his M.D. from Edinburgh. About Smith, Bynum tells us that Cullen was himself no experimentalist, and most of his new experimental evidence was taken from the 1767 thesis of a student of his, Thomas Smith, entitled De Actione Musculari. Little is known of Smith except that he came from Staffordshire, and that he enrolled in a number of classes in Edinburgh between 1757 and 1767, being particularly fond of Cullen's chemistry classes. It has been impossible to identify him with any certainty after 1767. There is another interesting reference to Smith and his dissertation in Alexander Monro secundus' book Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System, Illustrated with Tables (1783), where he suggests that Smith got his ideas from him, while attending his lectures in 1764.2 John Thomson tells us a bit more about Smith. He lists Smith as one of the medical students who seem to have enjoyed a large share of Dr Cullen's notice and favour. He describes Smith in these terms: "Dr Thomas Smith, who acquired great reputation by the inaugural dissertation on the Motion of the Muscles, which he published on graduating at Edinburgh in 1767, and who settled as a practitioner at Birmingham."The connection to Birmingham is quite helpful. The Medical Register for the Year 1783 lists Thomas Smith, along with 3 other physicians (including two other Edinburgh graduates, William Withering (Edin. 1766) and Edward Johnstone (Edin, 1779)), as attendants to the General Hospital at Birmingham. Smith 'Resigned or Died', according to subsequent records of the Birmingham General Hospital, in March 1801. Disbound from a (presumed) volume of papers. No wrapper - but complete clean and without marks or signatures apart from a single neat ?library stamp on tite page. See scans. N° de ref. del artículo 006043

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