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100 1 _aDarwin, Erasmus,
_d1731-1802
245 1 0 _aZoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2008
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonomia
500 _aRelease date is 2008-12-23
508 _aE-text prepared by Robert Shimmin, Greg Alethoup, Keith Edkins, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
520 _a"Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II" by Erasmus Darwin is a medical work published in 1796. This volume systematically classifies diseases into four major categories based on bodily motions: irritation, sensation, volition, and association. Darwin provides encyclopedia-style entries explaining symptoms, underlying mechanics, and treatments for various ailments. He presents his own theory of fever and catalogs medicinal substances into seven classes. While primarily a medical text, the work contains fleeting passages that hint at organic transmutation, advocating the inheritance of acquired characteristics—ideas that would later echo in evolutionary thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPhysiology -- Early works to 1800
653 _aPathology -- Early works to 1800
653 _aMedicine -- Early works to 1800
653 _aEvolution (Biology) -- Early works to 1800
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27600
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