Erasmus Darwin: Zoonomia, Vol. I

Erasmus Darwin (1731 – 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet.

The purport of the following work by Erasmus Darwin 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.