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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

The Malthusian Handbook Designed to Induce Married People to Limit Their Families Within Their Means.

by Anonymous

Tobacco and Alcohol I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine.

by John Fiske

Field hospital and flying column : being the journal of an English nursing sister in Belgium & Russia

by Violetta Thurstan

Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation Consisting of Twelve Plates from Drawings Engraved on Stone, and Coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and Two Copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, Coloured by the Same Artist. the Whole Representing Forty-five Specimens of Aborted Ova and Adventitious Productions of the Uterus, With Preliminary Observations, Explanations of the Figures and Remarks, Anatomical and Physiological.

by A. B. (Augustus Bozzi) Granville

Herinneringen van Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs

by Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette) Jacobs

Die krankheiterregenden Bakterien Entstehung, Heilung und Bekämpfung der bakteriellen Infektionskrankheiten des Menschen

by Max Löhlein

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, W. H. (William Heyser) Harbaugh, Rush Shippen Huidekoper, Charles B. Michener, Leonard Pearson

The Home Medical Library, Volume 1 (of 6)

The sexual life of woman in its physiological, pathological and hygienic aspects

by E. Heinrich (Enoch Heinrich) Kisch

Special report on diseases of cattle

by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, V. T. (Vickers T.) Atkinson, Dr. (William) Dickson, A. (Adolph) Eichhorn, Richard W. (Richard West) Hickman, James Law, (Dr.) (William Herbert) Lowe, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight) Marsh, John R. (John Robbins) Mohler, A. J. (Alexander James) Murray, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, M. R. (Milton R.) Trumbower, Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

Handbook of Medical Entomology

by William A. (William Albert) Riley, O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

Keeping fit all the way : how to obtain and maintain health, strength and efficiency

by Walter Camp

Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699

by Thomas Proctor Hughes

The Untroubled Mind

by Herbert J. (Herbert James) Hall

Porneiopathology A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; With Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for Their Treatment

by Robert James Culverwell

Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

by Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson

Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4 The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author

by Benjamin Rush

Gunshot Roentgenograms A Collection of Roentgenograms Taken in Constantinople During the Turko-Balkan War, 1912-1913, Illustrating Some Gunshot Wounds in the Turkish Army

by Clyde S. (Clyde Sinclair) Ford

A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein, Especially as to the Practice With Instruments: the Whole Serving to Put All Rational Inquirers in a Fair Way of Very Safely Forming Their Own Judgement Upon the Question; Which It Is Best to Employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-midwife; Or, a Midwife

by Elizabeth Nihell

Dress and care of the feet showing their natural shape and construction; their usual distorted condition; how corns, bunions, flat feet, and other deformities are caused, with instructions for their prevention or cure. Also, directions for dressing the feet with comfort and elegance, and many useful hints to those who wear, as well as those who make foot-coverings.

by John Lord Peck

A Nurse's Life in War and Peace

by E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence

The Surgery of Ritual Circumcision

by Jacob Snowman

Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy

by John M. (John Mullin) Batten

The married woman's private medical companion : embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression. Pregnancy, and how it may be determined; with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy; its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion. When proper and necessary to effect miscarriage. When attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness, or sterility.

by A. M. Mauriceau

On Digestive Proteolysis Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894

by R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden

Bacteria in Daily Life

by Grace C. Frankland

El Campesino Puertorriqueño Sus Condiciones Físicas, Intelectuales y Morales, Causas que la Determinan y Medios Para Mejorarlas

by Francisco del Valle Atiles

An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life

by Henry Curtis

Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances Made Chiefly with the View of Determining the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity

by Alexander Monro

The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern

by David C. (David Clark) Taylor

Civics and Health

by William H. (WIlliam Harvey) Allen

An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers

by John Higginbottom

The Great American Fraud The Patent Medicine Evil

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Science in the Kitchen A Scientific Treatise On Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes

by E. E. (Ella Ervilla) Kellogg

The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 2 of 2

by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy

Outwitting our nerves : a primer of psychotherapy

by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson, Helen M. Salisbury

How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science

by Irving Fisher, Eugene Lyman Fisk

Resonance in Singing and Speaking

by Thomas Fillebrown

The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800

by Albert H. (Albert Henry) Buck

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District

Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question

by Charles Knowlton

Superstition in Medicine

by Hugo Magnus

A Text-book of Diseases of Women

by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose

Personal hygiene and physical training for women

by Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith

Food Remedies: Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses

by Florence Daniel

Hospital Sketches

by Robert Swain Peabody

A Book of Simples

Medieval Medicine

by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine

by G. (Gustave) Moussu, Jno. A. W. (John A. W.) Dollar

Nerves and Common Sense

by Annie Payson Call

Experiments on Animals

by Stephen Paget

Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)

by James Law

Measles

by William Colby Rucker

Emergency Childbirth A Reference Guide for Students of the Medical Self-help Training Course, Lesson No. 11

by United States. Office of Civil Defense, United States. Public Health Service

Von der Macht des Gemüts, durch den bloßen Vorsatz seiner krankhaften Gefühle Meister zu sein

by Immanuel Kant

Hand-book of Sanitary Information for Householders Containing facts and suggestions about ventilation, drainage, care of contageous diseases, disinfection, food, and water. With appendices on disinfectants and plumbers' materials.

by Roger Sherman Tracy

Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891

by Various Authors

Observations on insanity : with practical remarks on the disease and an account of the morbid appearances on dissection

by John Haslam

Theory of circulation by respiration : synopsis of its principles and history

by Emma Willard

Cheese and its economical uses in the diet

by C. F. (Charles Ford) Langworthy, Caroline Louisa Hunt

Health: Five Lay Sermons to Working-People

by John Brown

Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac

by Anna M. (Anna Morris) Holstein

What a Young Wife Ought to Know

by Emma F. Angell (Emma Frances Angell) Drake

Keep Happy

by Eustace Miles

A Treatise on Electricity Wherein its various phænomena are accounted for, and the cause of the attraction and gravitation of solids, assigned. To which is added, a short account, how the electrical effluvia act upon the animal frame, and in what disorders the same may probably be applied with success, and in what not.

by Francis Penrose

House Flies

by L. O. (Leland Ossian) Howard

Rx

by Alan Edward Nourse

The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

by Edward Hooker Dewey

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing

by George Barton Cutten

Outdoor Sports and Games

by Claude Harris Miller

Quit Your Worrying!

by George Wharton James

American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick

by American National Red Cross, Jane A. Delano, Isabel McIsaac, Anne Hervey Strong

Makers of Modern Medicine

by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Walker's manly exercises Containing rowing, sailing, riding, driving, racing, hunting, shooting, and other manly sports

by Donald Walker

Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure

by Henry Lindlahr

Fletcherism: What It Is; Or, How I Became Young at Sixty

by Horace Fletcher

Plastic and cosmetic surgery

by Frederick Strange Kolle

Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy

by Charles Barnes Towns

Industrial Poisoning from Fumes, Gases and Poisons of Manufacturing Processes

by Josef Rambousek

Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital Prepared for the Army of Virginia, and published by order of the Surgeon General, with essays on "taking food," and "what food."

by Florence Nightingale

Personal Experience of a Physician

by John Ellis

The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)

by American National Red Cross

A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets, Perform'd by Mr. John Howard Surgeon at Guilford

by Nathanael St. André

Notes on Diseases of the Horse: Cause, Symptoms and Treatment

by Charles James Korinek

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management; with the Diseases to Which They Are Subject, and the Remedies Best Adapted to Their Cure

by Robert Jennings

The Home Medical Library, Volume 2 (of 6)

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould, Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.

by Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

by J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker, John Caius

Every Man His Own Doctor The Cold Water, Tepid Water, and Friction-Cure, as Applicable to Every Disease to Which the Human Frame Is Subject, and Also to the Cure of Disease in Horses and Cattle

by R. T. (Richard Tappin) Claridge

Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making

by Helen Kinne, Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley

Saratoga and How to See It

by R. F. Dearborn

Of Medicine, in Eight Books

by Aulus Cornelius Celsus

Incwadi Yami; or, twenty years' personal experience in South Africa

by J. W. (Josiah Wright) Matthews

Better babies and their care

by Anna Steese Richardson

First Book in Physiology and Hygiene

by John Harvey Kellogg

The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene

by Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith

Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia: Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment

by Isaac George Briggs