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I know Charles Darwin is the Darwin that gets most of the press (well, except maybe for that dolphin that was in that underwater Star Trek show), but I think we need to take a moment to appreciate his ...

Erasmus Darwin, M.D., F.R.S. : a biographical and iconographical note / J.W.T. Moody -- Nature, poetry and medicine in late eighteenth century England : a unified perspective of Erasmus Darwin / M.

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ERASMUS DARWIN by Desmond King-Hele. 183 pages. Scribner. $3.95. DOCTOR DARWIN by Hesketh Pearson. 235 pages. Walker. $5. To the eyes of the British, eccentricity often looks like genius. In his own ...

Exuberant, bantering, unconventional Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) strides across these pages like a force of nature. This engaging, totally unstuffy biography of the prolific inventor, physician, poet ...

A pockmarked face, a decided paunch and two missing front teeth notwithstanding, renowned physician Erasmus Darwin was, as Nebula Award winner Sheffield illustrates here, not only arguably the ...

THE June issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine contains an interesting notice by Drs. Ruth Musser and John C. Krantz, jun., on the friendship of William Withering and Erasmus Darwin. In ...

THE memory of this great man has suffered from the florid and spiteful biography written by Miss Seward. That she was animated by a feeling of bitterness towards Erasmus Darwin, engendered by ...