Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Of motion; 2. Explanations and definitions; 3. The motions of the retina demonstrated by experiments; 4. Laws of animal causation; 5. Of the four faculties of motions of the sensorium; 6. Of the four classes of fibrous motions; 7. Of irritative motions; 8. Of sensitive motions; 9. Of voluntary motions; 10. Of associate motions; 11. Additional observations on the sensorial powers; 12. Of stimulus, sensorial exertion, and fibrous contraction; 13. Of vegetable animation; 14. Of the production of ideas; 15. Of the classes of ideas; 16. Of instinct; 17. The catenation of animal motions; 18. Of sleep; 19. Of reverie; 20. Of vertigo; 21. Of drunkenness; 22. Of propensity to motion; 23. Of the circulatory system; 24. Of the secretion of saliva, and of tears; 25. Of the stomach and intestines; 26. Of the capillary glands, and of the membranes; 27. Of hæmorrhages; 28. The paralysis of the lacteals; 29. The retrograde motion of the absorbent vessels; 30. The paralysis of the liver; 31. Of temperaments; 32. Diseases of irritation; 33. Of sensation; 34. Of volition; 35. Of association; 36. The periods of diseases; 37. Of digestion, secretion, nutrition; 38. Of the oxygenation of the blood in the lungs and placenta; 39. Of generation; 40. Of ocular spectra.

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