Erasmus Darwin,
Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life…
(1796)
“ Sensorial power. See Spirit of Animation. —— great expence of in the vital motions, xxxii. 3. 2. —— two kinds of excited in sensitive fevers, xxxiii. 1. 3. —— powers defined, v. 1. —— motions distinguished from fibrous motions, v. 3. —— not much, accumulated in sleep, xviii. 2. —— powers, accumulation of, xii. 5. 1. —— exhaustion of, xii. 4. 1. —— wasted below natural in hot fits, xxxii. 9. 3. —— less exertion of produces pain, xii. 5. 3. —— less quantity of it, xii. 5. 4. Sensual motions distinguished from muscular, ii. 2. 7. Sex owing to the imagination of the father, xxxix. 7. 6. xxxix. 6. ”
