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ZOONOMIA;
OR,
THE LAWS
OF
ORGANIC LIFE.
VOL. II.
By ERASMUS DARWIN, M.D. F.R.S.
AUTHOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN.
Principiò cœlum, ac terras, camposque
liquentes,
Lucentemque globum lunæ, titaniaque
astra,
Spiritus intùs alit, totamque infusa per
artus
Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore
miscet.—VƗǡƄ. Æn. vi.
Earth, on whose lap a thousand nations
tread,
And Ocean, brooding his prolific bed,
Night's changeful orb, blue pole, and
silvery zones,
Where other worlds encircle other suns,
One Mind inhabits, one diffusive Soul
Wields the large limbs, and mingles with
the whole.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR. J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.
1796.
Entered at Stationers' Hall.
ZOONOMIA;
OR,
THE LAWS OF ORGANIC LIFE.
PART II.
CONTAINING
A CATALOGUE OF DISEASES
DISTRIBUTED INTO
NATURAL CLASSES ACCORDING TO THEIR PROXIMATE
CAUSES,
WITH THEIR
SUBSEQUENT ORDERS, GENERA, AND SPECIES,
AND WITH
THEIR METHODS OF CURE.
Hæc, ut potero, explicabo; nec tamen, quasi Pythius Apollo, certa ut sint et fixa, quæ dixero; sed ut Homunculus unus e multis probabiliora conjecturâ sequens.—CƗŕ. TǼǪŕ. DƗǪǙ. l.
1. 9.
PREFACE.
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 occasionally exerted, and produce all the motions of the fibrous parts of the body; these are the faculties of producing fibrous motions in consequence of irritation which is excited by external bodies; in
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