Zoonomia

OR,

THE LAWS

OF

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.—. 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.

THE SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR. J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1796.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

DEDICATION.

To the candid and ingenious Members of the College of Physicians, of the Royal Philosophical Society, of the Two Universities, and to all those, who study the Operations of the Mind as a Science, or who practice Medicine as a Profession, the subsequent Work is, with great respect, inscribed by the Author,

DERBY, May 1, 1794.

CONTENTS.

Volume I.

Part I


 * Preface
 * SECT. I. 	Of Motion.
 * II. 	Explanations and Definitions.
 * III. 	The Motions of the Retina demonstrated by Experiments.
 * IV. 	Laws of Animal Causation.
 * V. 	Of the four Faculties or Motions of the Sensorium.
 * VI. 	Of the four Classes of Fibrous Motions.
 * VII. 	Of Irritative Motions.
 * VIII. 	Of Sensitive Motions.
 * IX. 	Of Voluntary Motions.
 * X. 	Of Associate Motions.
 * XI. 	Additional Observations on the Sensorial Powers.
 * XII. 	Of Stimulus, Sensorial Exertion, and Fibrous Contraction.
 * XIII. 	Of Vegetable Animation.
 * XIV. 	Of the Production of Ideas.
 * XV. 	Of the Classes of Ideas.
 * XVI. 	Of Instinct.
 * XVII. 	The Catenation of Animal Motions.
 * XVIII. 	Of Sleep.
 * XIX. 	Of Reverie.
 * XX. 	Of Vertigo.
 * XXI. 	Of Drunkenness.
 * XXII. 	Of Propensity to Motion. Repetition. Imitation.
 * XXIII. 	Of the Circulatory System.
 * XXIV. 	Of the Secretion of Saliva, and of Tears. And of the Lacrymal Sack.
 * XXV. 	Of the Stomach and Intestines.
 * XXVI. 	Of the Capillary Glands, and of the Membranes.
 * XXVII. 	Of Hemorrhages.
 * XXVIII. 	The Paralysis of the Lacteals.
 * XXIX. 	The Retrograde Motions of the Absorbent Vessels.
 * XXX. 	The Paralysis of the Liver.
 * XXXI. 	Of Temperaments.
 * XXXII. 	Diseases of Irritation.
 * XXXIII. 	—— of Sensation.
 * XXXIV. 	—— of Volition.
 * XXXV. 	—— of Relation.
 * XXXVI. 	The Periods of Diseases.
 * XXXVII. 	Of Digestion, Secretion, Nutrition.
 * XXXVIII. 	Of the Oxygenation of the Blood in the Lungs and Placenta.
 * XXXIX. 	Of Generation.
 * XL. 	Of Ocular Spectra.
 * Index

Volume II.

Part II - Classes of Diseases.


 * Preface
 * I. Diseases of Irritation.
 * Ordo I.—Increased Irritation. Genera:
 * 1. With increased actions of the sanguiferous system.
 * 2. With increased actions of the secerning system.
 * 3. With increased actions of the absorbent system.
 * 4. With increased actions of other cavities and membranes.
 * 5. With increased actions of the organs of sense.
 * Ordo II.—Decreased Irritation. Genera:
 * 1. With decreased actions of the sanguiferous system.
 * 2. With decreased actions of the secerning system.
 * 3. With decreased actions of the absorbent system.
 * 4. With decreased actions of other cavities and membranes.
 * 5. With decreased actions of the organs of sense.
 * Ordo III.—Retrograde Irritative Motions. Genera:
 * 1. Of the alimentary canal.
 * 2. Of the absorbent system.
 * 3. Of the sanguiferous system.
 * II. Diseases of Sensation.
 * Ordo I.—Increased Sensation. Genera:
 * 1. With increased action of the muscles.
 * 2. With the production of new vessels by internal membranes or glands with fever.
 * 3. With the production of new vessels by external membranes or glands with fever.
 * 4. With the production of new vessels by internal membranes or glands without fever.
 * 5. With the production of new vessels by external membranes or glands without fever.
 * 6. With fever consequent to the production of new vessels or fluids.
 * 7. With increased action of the organs of sense.
 * Ordo II.—Decreased Sensation. Genera.:
 * 1. With decreased actions of the general system.
 * 2. With decreased actions of particular organs.
 * Ordo III.—Retrograde Sensitive Motions. Genus:
 * 1. Of the excretory ducts.
 * III. Diseases of Volition.
 * Ordo I.—Increased Volition. Genera:
 * 1. With increased actions of the muscles.
 * 2. With increased actions of the organs of sense.
 * Ordo II.—Decreased Volition. Genera:
 * 1. With decreased actions of the muscles.
 * 2. With decreased actions of the organs of sense.
 * IV. Diseases of Association.
 * Ordo I.—Increased Associate Motions. Genera:
 * 1. Catenated with irritative motions.
 * 2. Catenated with sensitive motions.
 * 3. Catenated with voluntary motions.
 * 4. Catenated with external influences.
 * Ordo II.—Decreased Associate Motions. Genera:
 * 1. Catenated with irritative motions.
 * 2. Catenated with sensitive motions.
 * 3. Catenated with voluntary motions.
 * 4. Catenated with external influences.
 * Ordo III.—Retrograde Associate Motions. Genera:
 * 1. Catenated with irritative motions.
 * 2. Catenated with sensitive motions.
 * 3. Catenated with voluntary motions.
 * 4. Catenated with external influences.
 * Supplement—Sympathetic Theory of Fever.
 * Additions to Part II.
 * Index

Part III - Articles of the Materia Medica.


 * Preface
 * 1. Nutrientia, or those things which preserve in their natural state the due exertions of all the irritative motions.
 * 2. Incitantia, or those things which increase the exertions of all the irritative motions.
 * 3. Secernentia, or those things which increase the irritative motions, which constitute secretion.
 * 4. Sorbentia, or those things which increase the irritative motions, which constitute absorption.
 * 5. Invertentia, or those things which invert the natural order of the successive irritative motions.
 * 6. Revertentia, or those things which restore the natural order of the inverted irritative motions.
 * 7. Torpentia, those things which diminish the exertions of all the irritative motions.
 * Further Additions to Part II.
 * Index