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ZOONOMIA;

OR,

THE LAWS

OF

ORGANIC LIFE.

VOL. II.

_By ERASMUS DARWIN, M.D. F.R.S._

AUTHOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN.



  Principio coelum, ac terras, camposque liquentes,
  Lucentemque globum lunae, titaniaque astra,
  Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus
  Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.--VIRG. Aen. 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.







London:
Printed for. J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
1796.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.




ZOONOMIA;

OR,

THE LAWS OF ORGANIC LIFE.

PART II.

CONTAINING

A CATALOGUE OF DISEASES

DISTRIBUTED INTO

NATURAL CLASSES ACCORDING TO THEIR PROXIMATE CAUSES,

WITH THEIR

SUBSEQUENT ORDERS, GENERA, AND SPECIES,

AND WITH

THEIR METHODS OF CURE.

       *       *       *       *       *

    Haec, ut potero, explicabo; nec tamen, quasi Pythius Apollo, certa ut
    sint et fixa, quae dixero; sed ut Homunculus unus e multis probabiliora
    conjectura sequens.--CIC. TUSC. DISP. l. 1. 9.

       *       *       *       *       *

PREFACE.

All diseases originate in the exuberance, deficiency, or retrograde action,
of the faculties of the sensorium, as their proximate cause; and consist in
the disordered motions of the fibres of the body, as the