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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

Birth control and the state : A plea and a forecast

by C. P. (Charles Paton) Blacker

Consumption Curable: Observations on the Treatment of Pulmonary Diseases

by Henry Congreve

Compulsory Vaccination Report of a Public Meeting, held in the Marylebone Vestry Hall, London, on Wednesday evening, October 19, 1870.

by Marylebone Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League

The Cholera Gazette, Vol. I. No. 4. Wednesday, August 1st, 1832.

by Various Authors

An Estimate of the True Value of Vaccination as a Security Against Small Pox

by T. M. (Thomas Michael) Greenhow

Report of the committee appointed to investigate the causes and extent of the late extraordinary sickness and mortality in the town of Mobile

by Mobile (Ala.). Committee on Causes and Extent of the Late Extraordinary Sickness and Mortality in the Town

Rules to be observed by masters and pilots of vessels, arriving at the port of Philadelphia, established by the health law, and regulations of the Board of Health, to which is annexed, a supplement to the health law, passed on the 2d day of April, 1821.

by Philadelphia. Board of health

Strength and How to Obtain It

by Eugen Sandow

Through These Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer

by Lauren Ann Isaacson

General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3)

by Xavier Bichat

The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century

by J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker

The Tale of a Field Hospital

by Frederick Treves

William Harvey

by Sir D'Arcy Power

Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 Volume 1, Number 6

The Social Emergency: Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals

Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885

by Various Authors

Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia

by Lewis W. Leeds

A Book of Fruits and Flowers

by Anonymous

The Gold-Headed Cane

by William Macmichael

Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion

by Nathaniel Hodges, John Quincy

Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Wherein Is Demonstrated, by His Own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age

by Luigi Cornaro

Apis Mellifica; or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent

by C. W. Wolf

On chloroform and other anæsthetics: their action and administration

by John Snow

Coca and its Therapeutic Application, Third Edition

by Angelo Mariani

On Snake-Poison: Its Action and Its Antidote

by A. Mueller

Smoking and Drinking

by James Parton

An ethical problem; or, Sidelights upon scientific experimentation on man and animals

by Albert Leffingwell

Andreas Vesalius, the Reformer of Anatomy

by James Moores Ball

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

by Various Authors

Training for the Trenches A Practical Handbook Based upon Personal Experience During the First Two Years of the War in France

by Leslie Vickers

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives

by United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

A Psychiatric Milestone: Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921

Family Limitation

by Margaret Sanger

The Toxins and Venoms and Their Antibodies

by M. Emm. (Marius Emmanuel) Pozzi-Escot

Researches Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly concerning nitrous oxide or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration

by Sir Humphry Davy

Massage & Exercises Combined A permanent physical culture course for men, women and children; health-giving, vitalizing, prophylactic, beautifying; a new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage movements; with 86 illustrations and deep breathing exercises

by Albrecht Jensen

Barium: A Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease

by Albert C. (Albert Cornelius) Crawford

The London Medical Gazette; December 27, 1828 Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences

by Various Authors

Psychological Aspects of the Problem of Atmospheric Smoke Pollution

by J. E. Wallace (John Edward Wallace) Wallin

Remarks on the Uses of some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India With a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India; to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites &c.

by Edward John Waring

Treatment of the diseases of the eye, by means of prussic acid vapour, and other medicinal agents

by Alexander Turnbull

The Girl in Industry

by Dorothy Josephine Collier

A Treatise of Cleanness in Meats and Drinks, of the Preparation of Food, the Excellency of Good Airs, and the Benefits of Clean Sweet Beds. Also of the Generation of Bugs, and Their Cure. To Which Is Added, a Short Discourse of the Pain in the Teeth, Shewing What Cause It Does Chiefly Proceed, and Also How to Prevent It.

by Thomas Tryon

A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs

by Johann Ulrich Bilguer

An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies With some observations on the practice and mode of treating that disease in those parts

by J. Z. (John Zephaniah) Holwell

The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives Being the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife. With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix.

by Anonymous

Medicina Gymnastica or, A treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy; and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers

by Francis Fuller

Sustos da Vida nos Perigos da Cura

by Bento Morganti

Luxurious Bathing

by Andrew White Tuer

Observations on Coroners

by William Hewitt

Preservation of forests as a measure of public safety Address before the 17th National Irrigation Congress, Spokane, Wash., August, 1909

by Lourenço Baeta Neves

Report of the Sanitary Committee of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, together with a report of the Medical Officer of Health on the objections raised by the Butchers' Trade Society to the bye-laws proposed for the regulation of slaughter-houses

by W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick) Saunders, City of London (England). Commissioners of Sewers. Sanitary Committee

Dairy Disagreeables Busy the Bacteriologists

by Frank H. (Frank Henry) Hall, Harry Alexis Harding, L. A. (Lore Alford) Rogers, George A. Smith

Influenza

by Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

Confidential Chats with Boys

by William Lee Howard

Good Councell against the plague Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Now necessary to be obserued of euery housholder, to auoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie.

by Learned phisition

Gerichtliche Leichen-Oeffnungen. Erstes Hundert.

by Johann Ludwig Casper

Anatomy and Embalming A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject

by Albert John Nunnamaker, Charles Otto Dhonau

A System of Operative Surgery, Volume 4 (of 4)

Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology

by Audrey B. Davis, Toby A. Appel

Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)

by John Ayrton Paris, J. S. M. (John Samuel Martin) Fonblanque

Structure and functions of the body : a hand-book of anatomy and physiology for nurses and others desiring a practical knowledge of the subject

by Annette Fiske

The Mediæval Hospitals of England

by Rotha Mary Clay

The Voice in Singing

by Emma Seiler

The psychology of sleep

by Bolton Hall

Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1 Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age

The Quiver, 11/1899

by Anonymous

Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare

by Benjamin Rush Field

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899

by Various Authors

Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883

by Various Authors

Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays

by Charles Kingsley

On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment

by Honoré Bourguignon

Meine Wasser-Kur Durch mehr als 40 Jahre erprobt und geschrieben zur Heilung der Krankheiten und Erhaltung der Gesundheit

by Sebastian Kneipp

The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People

by John H. (John Hinchman) Stokes

Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation.

by Walter V. Woods

Unser Familien-Arzt : Allöopathische, Homöopathische, Hydropathische, Eclectische und Kräuter-Heilmethode

by H. R. (Henry Rice) Stout

What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know

by John Dutton Wright

The Vitamine Manual

by Walter Hollis Eddy

An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time

by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill

Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community.

by J. (James) Gillkrest, William Fergusson

Zone therapy; or, Relieving pain at home

by Wm. H. (William Henry Hope) Fitzgerald, Edwin F. (Edwin Frederick) Bowers

Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum

by Mary Huestis Pengilly

The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications A Handbook for Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis Campaign

by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate

by Simon Paulli

Geschichte der Medizin. II. Band, Erster Teil

by Max Neuburger

Psycho Vox; or, The Emerson System of Voice Culture

by Charles Wesley Emerson

The Popular Science Monthly, June, 1900 Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900

by Various Authors

Experiments and Observations on the Following Subjects 1. On the preparation, calcination, and medicinal uses of Magnesia Alba. 2. On the solvent qualities of calcined Magnesia. 3. On the variety in the solvent powers of quick-lime, when used in different quantities. 4. On various absorbents, as promoting or retarding putrefaction. 5. On the comparative antiseptic powers of vegetable infusions prepared with lime, &c. 6. On the sweetening properties of fixed air.

by Thomas Henry

A Discourse on the Plague

by Richard Mead

Treatise on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Mucous Membranes With Illustrative Pathological Observations

by Xavier Bichat

Quacks and Grafters

by Anonymous

The Art of the Bone-Setter: A Testimony and a Vindication

by George Matthews Bennett

Treatment of hemorrhoids, and other non-malignant rectal diseases

by W. P. (William Penn) Agnew

Student und Alkohol Vortrag gehalten am 21. Februar 1910

by Leopold Loewenfeld

Colony Treatment of the Insane and Other Defectives

by P. L. (Patrick Livingston) Murphy

Music in Medicine

by Sidney Licht

Körperpflege durch Gymnastik, Licht und Luft

by Paul Jaerschky

Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. CX. March, 1916. No. 3

by Various Authors

Cottage scenes during the cholera : being extracts from a diary written in July and August, 1832

by William Isaac Coppard