Written by Erasmus Darwin

Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I

by Erasmus Darwin

The purpose of the following pages is an endeavour 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. It happened, perhaps unfortunately for the inquirers into the knowledge of diseases, that other sciences had received improvement previo..

Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II

by Erasmus Darwin

All diseases originate in the exuberance, deficiency, or retrograde action, of the faculties of the sensorium, as their proximate cause; and consist in the disordered motions of the fibres of the body, as the proximate effect of the exertions of those disordered faculties.The sensorium possesses four distinct powers, or faculties, which are occasio..