Health & Medicine
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II
This volume systematically classifies diseases into four major categories based on bodily motions: irritation, sensation, volition, and association.
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"Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II" by Erasmus Darwin is a medical work published in 1796. This volume systematically classifies diseases into four major categories based on bodily motions: irritation, sensation, volition, and association. Darwin provides encyclopedia-style entries explaining symptoms, underlying mechanics, and treatments for various ailments. He presents his own theory of fever and catalogs medicinal substances into seven classes. While primarily a medical text, the work contains fleeting passages that hint at organic transmutation, advocating the inheritance of acquired characteristics—ideas that would later echo in evolutionary thought.
- Format
- EPUB
- Language
- English
- Length
- 840 pages
- Published
- 1 January 1796
- ISBN
- 9789364732444
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