Erasmus Darwin

Zoonomia (eBook, ePUB)

The Laws of Organic Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life is a two-volume medical work by Erasmus Darwin dealing with pathology, anatomy, psychology, and the functioning of the body. Its primary framework is one of associationist psychophysiology. The book is famous for its early ideas relating to the theory of evolution, specifically forms of developmentalism similar to Lamarckism. The first volume is divided into 40 sections, on a range of topics related to the body, the senses, and disease. He classifies bodily and sensory motions as "irritative," "sensitive," "voluntary," and "associative." He presents theories on the production and classes of ideas, and seeks to explain the causes and mechanisms of sleep, reverie, vertigo, and drunkenness. He then discusses anatomy, especially the operation of the circulatory system and various glands. The second volume, published in 1796, is focused on classifying diseases into classes, orders, and genera. The book is divided into four major sections, based on his four classes of disease: diseases of irritation, sensation, volition, and association.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copycat
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788028312602
• Artikelnr.: 68956903

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Of motion
2. Explanations and definitions
3. The motions of the retina demonstrated by experiments
4. Laws of animal causation
5. Of the four faculties of motions of the sensorium
6. Of the four classes of fibrous motions
7. Of irritative motions
8. Of sensitive motions
9. Of voluntary motions
10. Of associate motions
11. Additional observations on the sensorial powers
12. Of stimulus, sensorial exertion, and fibrous contraction
13. Of vegetable animation
14. Of the production of ideas
15. Of the classes of ideas
16. Of instinct
17. The catenation of animal motions
18. Of sleep
19. Of reverie
20. Of vertigo
21. Of drunkenness
22. Of propensity to motion
23. Of the circulatory system
24. Of the secretion of saliva, and of tears
25. Of the stomach and intestines
26. Of the capillary glands, and of the membranes
27. Of hæmorrhages
28. The paralysis of the lacteals
29. The retrograde motion of the absorbent vessels
30. The paralysis of the liver
31. Of temperaments
32. Diseases of irritation
33. Of sensation
34. Of volition
35. Of association
36. The periods of diseases
37. Of digestion, secretion, nutrition
38. Of the oxygenation of the blood in the lungs and placenta
39. Of generation
40. Of ocular spectra.