| With the aim of improving society through medicine rather than politics, Zoonomia made him Britain's leading medical writer. |
| By 1801, a year before his death those further thoughts amounted to a four volume treatise of more than 2,000 pages called Zoonomia, or The Laws of Organic Life. |
| The list runs from aboideau to zoonomia, and includes terms such as azotemia, banlieue, etouffee, ibogaine, mazaedia, oceanaut, pahoehoe, retiarii, thiourea and uxorious. |
| And grandson Charles would have found Erasmus's book Zoonomia very handy with regard to his biological studies and theories of evolution. |
| In 1794, Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, developed one of the first theories of evolution in his book, Zoonomia. |
