Written by Erasmus Darwin 2m494n
Erasmus Darwin 1s6l5a
The purpose of the following pages is an endeavour 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. It happened, perhaps unfortunately for the inquirers into the knowledge of diseases, that other sciences had received improvement previo.. 3fj3m
Erasmus Darwin 1s6l5a
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 proximate effect of the exertions of those disordered faculties.The sensorium possesses four distinct powers, or faculties, which are occasio..