Baglivi, Giorgio (Bagli`vi, Giorgio) , an illustrious Italian physician, wrote “De Fibra Motrice” in defence of the “solidist” theory, as it is called, which traced all diseases to alterations in the solid parts of the body (1667‒1706).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Baglio`ni * Bagnères