Volume 5

Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ... / By Erasmus Darwin.

  • Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1801
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Credit: Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ... / By Erasmus Darwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRE FLAG E; INL difeatss originate in the exuberante, de- ficiency, or retrograde action, of the faculties of the fenforium, as their Biedice caufe; and con: fift in the difordered motions of the fibres of the body, as the proximate effect of the exertions of thofe difordered faculties. The fenforium poffeffes four diftinct powers, or faculties, which are occafionally exerted, and pro- duce all the motions of the fibrous parts of the body; thefe are the faculties of producing fibrous motions in confequence of irritation, which is eX- cited by external bodies; in confequence of fenfa- A sae: tion