Zoonomia, or, the laws of organic life
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Zoonomia, or, the laws of organic life
（Cambridge library collection）
Cambridge University Press, c2009.
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- v. 2
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Volume 2 contains part 2 and 3.
"This book reproduces the text of the original edition. The content and language reflects the beliefs, practices and terminology of their time, and have not been updated"--T.p. verso.
This edition originally published 1794-1796 in London, printed for J Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-yard.
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9781108005494
Description
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) is remembered not only as the grandfather of Charles but as a pioneering scientist in his own right. A friend and correspondent of Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley and Matthew Boulton, he practised medicine in Lichfield, but also wrote prolifically on scientific subjects. He organised the translation of Linnaeus from Latin into English prose, coining many plant names in the process, and also wrote a version in verse, The Loves of Plants. The aim of his Zoonomia, published in two volumes (1794-6), is to 'reduce the facts belonging to animal life into classes, orders, genera, and species; and by comparing them with each other, to unravel the theory of diseases'. The first volume describes human physiology, especially importance of motion, both voluntary and involuntary; the second is a detailed description of the symptoms of, and the cures for, diseases, categorised according to his physiological classes.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Of motion
- 2. Explanations and definitions
- 3. The motions of the retina demonstrated by experiments
- 4. Laws of animal causation
- 5. Of the four faculties of motions of the sensorium
- 6. Of the four classes of fibrous motions
- 7. Of irritative motions
- 8. Of sensitive motions
- 9. Of voluntary motions
- 10. Of associate motions
- 11. Additional observations on the sensorial powers
- 12. Of stimulus, sensorial exertion, and fibrous contraction
- 13. Of vegetable animation
- 14. Of the production of ideas
- 15. Of the classes of ideas
- 16. Of instinct
- 17. The catenation of animal motions
- 18. Of sleep
- 19. Of reverie
- 20. Of vertigo
- 21. Of drunkenness
- 22. Of propensity to motion
- 23. Of the circulatory system
- 24. Of the secretion of saliva, and of tears
- 25. Of the stomach and intestines
- 26. Of the capillary glands, and of the membranes
- 27. Of haemorrhages
- 28. The paralysis of the lacteals
- 29. The retrograde motion of the absorbent vessels
- 30. The paralysis of the liver
- 31. Of temperaments
- 32. Diseases of irritation
- 33. Of sensation
- 34. Of volition
- 35. Of association
- 36. The periods of diseases
- 37. Of digestion, secretion, nutrition
- 38. Of the oxygenation of the blood in the lungs and placenta
- 39. Of generation
- 40. Of ocular spectra.
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v. 2 ISBN 9781108005500
Description
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) is remembered not only as the grandfather of Charles but as a pioneering scientist in his own right. A friend and correspondent of Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley and Matthew Boulton, he practised medicine in Lichfield, but also wrote prolifically on scientific subjects. He organised the translation of Linnaeus from Latin into English prose, coining many plant names in the process, and also wrote a version in verse, The Loves of Plants. The aim of his Zoonomia, published in two volumes (1794-6), is to 'reduce the facts belonging to animal life into classes, orders, genera, and species; and by comparing them with each other, to unravel the theory of diseases'. The first volume describes human physiology, especially importance of motion, both voluntary and involuntary; the second is a detailed description of the symptoms of, and the cures for, diseases, categorised according to his physiological classes.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Diseases of irritation
- 2. Diseases of sensation
- 3. Diseases of volition
- 4. Diseases of association.
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