On the source of muscular power

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Abstract
WHAT is the source of muscular power?Twenty y'ears ago, if this question had been asked, there were but fe\v phIlosophers who would have hesitated to reply, II The source of muscular power is that peculiar force which is developed hy living ani• mals, and which we term the vital force /" but the progress of scientific discovery has rendered the vie\v implied in such an answer so utterly untenable that, at the present.moment, no one possessing any knowledge of physical science would venture to return such a reply.We now know that.an animal, how~ver high its organizatIon may be, can no more generate an amount of force capable of movin~ a grain of sand, than a stone can fall upwards or a locomotlve drive II.train without fuel.All that such an animal can do is to liberate that store of force, or potential energy, which is locked up in its food.It is the chem• ical cha.nge whieh food suffers in the body of an animal that lib• erates th.e previously pent-up forces of that.food, which now make their appearance in the form of actual energy-as heat and mechanical motion.• • TetanQll eine
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Authors E. Gene Frankland
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Journal american journal of science
Year 1866
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10.2475/ajs.s2-42.126.393
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