Zoonomia 2 Volume Paperback Set
Zoonomia 2 Volume Paperback Set
$174.00
USDErasmus 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, the and the cures for, diseases, categorised according to his physiological classes.
Product details
September 2009Multiple copy pack
9781108005562
525 pages
325 × 250 × 156 mm
3.7kg
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Table of Contents
- Volume I: 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 hæmorrhages
- 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
- Volume II: Preface
- 1. Diseases of irritation
- 2. Diseases of sensation
- 3. Diseases of volition
- 4. Diseases of association.
