He was convinced that all mental illness had an organic cause, and he was one of the first scientists to emphasize brain pathology in mental illness.

他确信所有的精神疾病都有器质性成因，而且还是最早重视精神疾病的大脑病理的科学家之一。

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“Shall we conjecture that one and the same kind of living filaments is and has been the cause of all organic life?” he wrote in “Zoonomia” in 1794.

1704年他在《动物法则》中写到:“我们可以推测人和同种拥有生命细胞的，是引起所有有机生命的原因吗？。

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Deficiencies in certain organic chemicals can cause mental retardation in babies, rickets, beriberi, blindness, scurvy and many other diseases.

缺乏某些有机化合物，能引起婴儿智力迟钝、佝偻病、脚气病、失明、坏血病和其它许多疾病。

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So, for example, chemical pesticide or pollen from genetically engineered plants wafting onto an organic crop from an adjacent field does not cause the harvest to lose its organic status.

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Network effects organic internal product forces that cause growth to build on growth determined much of the success of companies like Google and Facebook.

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Experts said it was likely that easterly gales had whipped up organic material in the sea to cause the foam.

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