Zoonomia - Volume I

Zoonomia - Volume I

Erasmus Darwin, english physician (1731-1802)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- MOTTO

-03- DEDICATION

-04- PREFACE

-05- VOLUME I. ZOONOMIA

-06- SECTION I. OF MOTION

-07- SECTION II.  EXPLANATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

-08- SECTION III. THE MOTIONS OF THE RETINA DEMONSTRATED BY EXPERIMENTS

-09- SECTION IV.  LAWS OF ANIMAL CAUSATION

-10- SECTION V.  OF THE FOUR FACULTIES OR MOTIONS OF THE SENSORIUM

-11- SECTION VI. OF THE FOUR CLASSES OF FIBROUS MOTIONS

-12- SECTION VII. OF IRRITATIVE MOTIONS

-13- SECTION VIII. OF SENSITIVE MOTIONS

-14- SECTION IX. OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS

-15- SECTION X. OF ASSOCIATE MOTIONS

-16- SECTION XI. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE SENSORIAL POWERS

-17- SECTION XII. OF STIMULUS  SENSORIAL EXERTION AND FIBROUS CONTRACTION

-18- SECTION XIII. OF VEGETABLE ANIMATION

-19- SECTION XIV.  OF THE PRODUCTION OF IDEAS

-20- SECTION XV. OF THE CLASSES OF IDEAS

-21- SECTION XVI. OF INSTINCT

-22- SECTION XVII. THE CATENATION OF MOTIONS

-23- SECTION XVIII. OF SLEEP

-24- SECTION XIX. OF REVERIE

-25- SECTION XX. OF VERTIGO

-26- SECTION XXI. OF DRUNKENNESS

-27- SECTION XXII. OF PROPENSITY TO MOTION REPETITION AND IMITATION

-28- SECTION XXIII. OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

-29- SECTION XXIV. OF THE SECRETIONS OF SALIVA AND OF TEARS AND OF THE LACRYMAL SACK

-30- SECTION XXV. OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES

-31- SECTION XXVI. OF THE CAPILLARY GLANDS AND MEMBRANES

-32- SECTION XXVII. OF HÆMORRHAGES

-33- SECTION XXVIII. OF THE PARALYSIS OF THE ABSORBENT SYSTEM

-34- SECTION XXIX. ON THE RETROGRADE MOTIONS OF THE ABSORBENT SYSTEM

-35- SECTION XXX. PARALYSIS OF THE LIVER AND KIDNEYS

-36- SECTION XXXI. OF TEMPERAMENTS

-37- SECTION XXXII. DISEASES OF IRRITATION

-38- SECTION XXXIII. DISEASES OF SENSATION

-39- SECTION XXXIV. DISEASES OF VOLITION

-40- SECTION XXXV. DISEASES OF ASSOCIATION

-41- SECTION XXXVI. OF THE PERIODS OF DISEASES

-42- SECTION XXXVII. OF THE OXYGENATION OF THE BLOOD IN THE LUNGS, AND IN THE PLACENTA

-43- SECTION XXXVIII. OF GENERATION

-44- SECTION XL. OF OCULAR SPECTRA