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2nd ed., corr. |
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1 online resource (viii, 586 pages) |
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Vol. 2 contains parts II and III: "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" (p. [iii]-xi and [1]-653); "The articles of the materia medica, with an account of the operation of medicines" (p. [655]-772). |
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"Sect. XL. On the ocular spectra of light and colours, by Dr. R.W. Darwin ... from the Philosophical transactions, vol. LXXVI [1786] p. 313": v. 1, p. 534-566. |
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"Additions": v. 1, p. [566]-575; v. 2, p. [626]-640. |
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"Directions to the binder," "Errata," and "Advertisement [announcement of v. 2]": v. 1, p. [587-588]. |
| Summary |
"The purport 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 previous to their own; whence, instead of comparing the properties belonging to animated nature with each other, they, idly ingenious, busied themselves in attempting to explain the laws of life by those of mechanism and chemistry; they considered the body as an hydraulic machine, and the fluids as passing through a series of chemical changes, forgetting that animation was its essential characteristic"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Print version record. |
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Physiology -- Early works to 1800.
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Pathology -- Early works to 1800.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Evolution (Biology) -- Early works to 1800.
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Evolution (Biology) (OCoLC)fst00917302
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Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
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Pathology. (OCoLC)fst01054964
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Physiology. (OCoLC)fst01063177
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Physiology. (DNLM)D010827
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Pathology. (DNLM)D010336
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Medicine. (DNLM)D008511
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Biological Evolution. (DNLM)D005075
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Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
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| Added Author |
Darwin, Robert Waring, 1766-1848.
New experiments on the ocular spectra of light and colours.
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| Added Title |
Laws of organic life. Vol. 1 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. Zoonomia, or, The laws of organic life. Vol. 1. 2nd ed., corr. London : J. Johnson, 1796 (LSS)lss04993465 |
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