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Health & Medicine

Step into a world where science, suffering, and hard-won wisdom collide—where physicians battle mysterious illnesses, reformers argue over public health, and hospitals reveal both heroism and heartbreak. This bookshelf ranges from practical guides and forgotten remedies to vivid sketches of medical life, tracing humanity’s long quest to understand the body, prevent disease, and care for one another. Equal parts clinic, casebook, and social history, it offers a fascinating look at medicine when every diagnosis felt like a frontier.

1137 Audiobooks

Secret remedies : What they cost and what they contain

Secret remedies : What they cost and what they contain

by British Medical Association

The care of the skin and hair : and other general health hints

The care of the skin and hair : and other general health hints

by Morris Fishbein

Anæsthetics antient and modern : An historical sketch of anæsthesia

Anæsthetics antient and modern : An historical sketch of anæsthesia

by Burroughs Wellcome and Company

The truth about the tobacco habit

The truth about the tobacco habit

by T. Swann (Thomas Swann) Harding

Maan-Miehen Huone- ja Koti-Aptheeki

Maan-Miehen Huone- ja Koti-Aptheeki

by Christfrid Ganander

The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals: also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth.

The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals: also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth.

by Johann Rudolf Glauber

The ugly-girl papers : or, Hints for the toilet

The ugly-girl papers : or, Hints for the toilet

by S. D. (Susan Dunning) Power

A practical guide for making post-mortem examinations : and for the study of morbid anatomy, with directions for embalming the dead, and for the preservation of specimens of morbid anatomy

A practical guide for making post-mortem examinations : and for the study of morbid anatomy, with directions for embalming the dead, and for the preservation of specimens of morbid anatomy

by A. R. (Amos Russell) Thomas

Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses

Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses

by Florence Nightingale

Handbook of anæsthetics

Handbook of anæsthetics

by J. Stuart (John Stuart) Ross

A study of some factors influencing fertility and sterility in the bull

A study of some factors influencing fertility and sterility in the bull

by Herbert Lester Gilman

Euthanasia : or, Medical treatment in aid of an easy death

Euthanasia : or, Medical treatment in aid of an easy death

by William Munk

Moeder en kind : Zwangerschap bevalling en verzorging van zuigelingen

Moeder en kind : Zwangerschap bevalling en verzorging van zuigelingen

by C. N. van de (Cornelis Nanning) Poll

Observations on M. Laennec's method of forming a diagnosis of the diseases of the chest by means of the stethoscope, and of percussion; and upon some points of the French practice of medicine

Observations on M. Laennec's method of forming a diagnosis of the diseases of the chest by means of the stethoscope, and of percussion; and upon some points of the French practice of medicine

by Charles Scudamore

Ruumiin elimistä ja niiden toimista

Ruumiin elimistä ja niiden toimista

by J. A. (Johan Axel) Palmén

Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)

Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)

by James Law

Lessons from the life of Florence Nightingale

Lessons from the life of Florence Nightingale

by Charlotte A. (Charlotte Albina) Aikens

Hospital housekeeping

Hospital housekeeping

by Charlotte A. (Charlotte Albina) Aikens

The human foot and the human hand

The human foot and the human hand

by Sir George Murray Humphry

Children well and happy : A manual for the Girl's Health League

Children well and happy : A manual for the Girl's Health League

by May Dickinson Kimball

Vikings of to-day : Or, life and medical work among the fishermen of Labrador

Vikings of to-day : Or, life and medical work among the fishermen of Labrador

by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Constipation and its correction by exercise

Constipation and its correction by exercise

by C. O. (Charles Oren) Benson

Spectacle secrets

Spectacle secrets

by George (Optician) Cox

Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners

Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners

by William Buchan

Life in the sick-room : Essays

Life in the sick-room : Essays

by Harriet Martineau

An atlas of gas poisoning

An atlas of gas poisoning

by Great Britain. Medical Research Committee

The Hunterian lectures on colour-vision and colour-blindness

The Hunterian lectures on colour-vision and colour-blindness

by F. W. (Frederick William) Edridge-Green

Scientific feeding

Scientific feeding

by Dora C. C. L. (Dora Cathrine Cristine Liebel) Roper

An inquiry into the propagation of contagious poisons, by the atmosphere : as also into the nature and effects of vitiated air, its forms and sources, and other causes of pestilence : with directions for avoiding the action of contagion, and observations on some means for promoting public health

An inquiry into the propagation of contagious poisons, by the atmosphere : as also into the nature and effects of vitiated air, its forms and sources, and other causes of pestilence : with directions for avoiding the action of contagion, and observations on some means for promoting public health

by Somerville Scott Alison

Die Kneippkur : Eine Wasserdichtung für Gesunde und Kranke

Die Kneippkur : Eine Wasserdichtung für Gesunde und Kranke

by Aloysius Binder

Baths and bathing

Baths and bathing

by Various Authors

The swimming baths of London

The swimming baths of London

by R. E. (Robert Ellis) Dudgeon

Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage : an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement

Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage : an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement

by Walter B. (Walter Bradford) Cannon

An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons : With proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences. And instructions for their cure

An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons : With proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences. And instructions for their cure

by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 21, June 30 to July 31, 1832

Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 21, June 30 to July 31, 1832

Lehrbuch der Gerichtlichen Medicin

Lehrbuch der Gerichtlichen Medicin

by Ritter von Eduard Hofmann

Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : incidence, description, comparison

Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : incidence, description, comparison

by Herbert Fox