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Zoonomia: Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Volume 1

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J. Johnson, 1794 - Anatomy

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SECT I	5

Explanations and Definitions	7

Lives in new formsa linea ringa tube	15

Sips with rude mouth the falutary waves	20

It lifts in gelid air its nodding head	25

The Motions of the Retina demonftrated by Experiments IV Laws of Animal Caufation	31

Of the four Faculties or Motions of the Senforium	32

Of Irritative Motions VIII Of Senfitive Motions	35

Of Reverie	220

Of Vertigo	227

Of Drunkenneſs XXII Of Propenfity to Motion Repetition Imitation SECT	248

Of the Circulatory Syftem	259

Of the Secretion of Saliva and of Tears And of the Lacrymal Sack	266

Of the Stomach and Intestines	273

Of the Capillary Glands and of the Membranes XXVII Of Hemorrhages	290

Of Temperaments	354

Of Voluntary Motions	45

And give new wonders to the beam of day	55

Of Affociate Motions	67

Line 1	69

Additional Obfervations on the Senſorial Powers XII Of Stimulus Senforial Exertion and Fibrous Contraction XIII Of Vegetable Animation	101

Of the Production of Ideas XV Of the Claffes of Ideas	105

Of Instinct	135

Of Sleep	198

Difeafes of Irritation	355

XXXIII	385

of Senfation of Volition	415

of Affociation	436

XXXV	441

The Periods of Difeafes XXXVII Of Digeflion Secretion Nutrition XXXVIII Of the Oxygenation of the Blood in the Lungs and Placenta	470

Of Generation	478

Of Ocular Spectra	534

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Erasmus Darwin
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Erasmus Darwin
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Title	Zoonomia: Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Volume 1 Volume 1 of Zoonomia, Or, the Laws of Organic Life. By Erasmus Darwin, Erasmus Darwin Zoonomia: Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Erasmus Darwin
Author	Erasmus Darwin
Publisher	J. Johnson, 1794
Original from	Ghent University
Digitized	25 Oct 2010

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