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Zoonomia: Volume 1 - Erasmus Darwin

Zoonomia: Volume 1

Or, the Laws of Organic Life

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
616 Seiten
2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-00549-4 (ISBN)
CHF 97,75 inkl. MwSt
The two-volume Zoonomia (1794–6) attempts 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' and marks a new stage in the development of the science of medicine.
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) is remembered not only as the grandfather of Charles but as a pioneering scientist in his own right. A friend and correspondent of Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley and Matthew Boulton, he practised medicine in Lichfield, but also wrote prolifically on scientific subjects. He organised the translation of Linnaeus from Latin into English prose, coining many plant names in the process, and also wrote a version in verse, The Loves of Plants. The aim of his Zoonomia, published in two volumes (1794–6), is 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'. The first volume describes human physiology, especially importance of motion, both voluntary and involuntary; the second is a detailed description of the symptoms of, and the cures for, diseases, categorised according to his physiological classes.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.7.2009
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 210 x 297 mm
Gewicht 1460 g
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Physiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
ISBN-10 1-108-00549-7 / 1108005497
ISBN-13 978-1-108-00549-4 / 9781108005494
Zustand Neuware
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