Health & Medicine
Explore a diverse collection of texts on health and medicine, ranging from historical perspectives to practical guides. This category features works that cover medical knowledge, wellness tips, and insights into healthcare practices. Ideal for both curious minds and those seeking to understand more about the evolution of medical science, each book offers valuable information that is both educational and engaging.
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
In a world turning towards men and machines during childbirth, one woman fights to preserve the historic role of female caregivers and the natural process of birth.
By Elizabeth Nihell
Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica
** Step back in time to an era where doctors relied on this singular book to identify the drugs, dosages, and treatments available during the nineteenth century.
By Merck & Co.
William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
Witness a historical clash where a lone physician's revolutionary idea of how blood truly flows sets the stage for modern medicine, forever challenging the old ways.
By Thomas Henry Huxley
Medieval Medicine
Uncover a time of unexpected healing and knowledge, defying the dark stereotypes of medicine long ago.
By James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Tics and Their Treatment
Uncover the mysterious world of involuntary movements and sounds through the story of one man's lifelong struggle to understand his condition.
By Henry Meige
The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania
A deadly plague and a strange dancing frenzy reveal the hidden layers of human nature amid chaos and uncertainty in Europe.
By J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker
Gout, with a section on ocular disease in the gouty
Uncover the agonizing secrets of a historical affliction that torments joints and possibly blinds, as old and new understandings of a disease are presented.
By Llewellyn J. (Llewellyn Jones) Llewellyn
Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.
Discover the surprising connections and comical encounters between preachers and physicians in a bygone era, filled with witty exchanges and moral lessons.
By Anonymous
The Sanitary Evolution of London
Discover how a bustling 19th-century city grappled with deadly diseases and slow-moving reforms, revealing a time when public health was a battleground between progress and neglect.
By Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
Explore the secrets of life as this groundbreaking scientific work seeks to categorize the principles governing the actions and feelings of living things.
By Erasmus Darwin
The Nervous Housewife
Discover the hidden world of early 20th-century housewives and the emotional battles they fought against societal pressure and changing roles.
By Abraham Myerson
Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease
Faced with a rising tide of mental illness, this story offers a controversial solution involving selective breeding to create a healthier population.
By Horatio M. (Horatio Milo) Pollock
Physiological Researches on Life and Death
Go on a journey through this early scientific work, understanding life's functions and how they relate to the body's unavoidable journey to death.
By Xavier Bichat
The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life By Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c. and Peptic Precepts, Pointing Out Agreeable and Effectual Methods to Prevent and Relieve Indigestion, and to Regulate and Strengthen the Action of the Stomach and Bowels
Discover how simple adjustments to food, activity, and mental attitude can unlock a vibrant, long life.
By William Kitchiner
Ribbon in the sky
Lost in space, a lone pilot must confront a planet's epidemic of fear and a mysterious sky-ribbon to save a desperate young couple seeking freedom.
By Murray Leinster
Report of the committee appointed to investigate the causes and extent of the late extraordinary sickness and mortality in the town of Mobile
Unsanitary conditions, extreme weather, and limited medical care converge to unleash a wave of sickness and death upon a vulnerable town.
By Mobile (Ala.). Committee on Causes and Extent of the Late Extraordinary Sickness and Mortality in the Town
Love—Marriage—Birth Control Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at Birmingham, October, 1921
In a time of changing views, a controversial speech challenges old ideas about love, marriage, and the choices that shape families.
By Bertrand Edward Dawson Dawson
The American Journal of Pharmacy, March, 1907
Explore the origins of modern pharmaceutical practices and regulations in the United States as educators and practitioners pushed for higher standards in pharmacy education.
By Various
Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 2 of 2)
Across insect species, a groundbreaking study uncovers how the hidden structures within sperm orchestrate the determination of sex, changing the course of genetic understanding forever.
By N. M. (Nettie Maria) Stevens
The Meaning of Infancy
Discover how the vulnerability of human babies is secretly the key to our species' intelligence, society, and ongoing progress.
By John Fiske