Motus and tonus
 

motus and tonus
 
"The motus tonicus was a tension force. This tension force, the tonus of muscles and fibers, which was set into motion by a motus (an impulse toward movement)" (127-8)
> from Barbara Duden's The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1991)

> tagged with #the_past, #body

> created October 6, 2026 at 9:34:04 AM


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