LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 6)

The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …

Use Of The Dead To The Living

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Thomas Southwood Smith

In 1827 Thomas Southwood-Smith published The Use of the Dead to the Living, a pamphlet which argued that the current system of burial in the…

The Prospective Mother

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J. Morris Slemons

A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …

The Privilege of Pain

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Caroline Kane Mills Everett

We have seen that as mankind rises in the scale of civilization the body becomes increasingly less important. Nevertheless, I wish it to be …

Sleeping Sickness

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Fleming Mant Sandwith

In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…

Strength and How to Obtain It

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Eugen Sandow

In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual

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F. Matthias Alexander

F. Matthias Alexander was an Australian actor, author and educator, who is best known as the inventor of Alexander Technique, a method for &…

Pleasure Cycling

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Henry Clyde

"In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful inform…

Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918

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Francis Edward Tourscher

In 1918 over 2,000 Roman Catholic nuns left their convents in the Philadelphia area to nurse the sick and dying of the influenza epidemic. …

The City That Was

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Stephen Smith

This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town…

Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer

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Joseph Rogers

Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…

A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used…

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Richard Mead

This is a work written about the plague in France and how to prevent its spread. It is considered an important historical work for the unde…

Music in Medicine

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Sidney Licht

In spite of a spirited rebirth of the movement towards the establishment of a system of healing based on music, there are many valuable uses…

How to Eat: A Cure for "Nerves"

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Thomas Clark Hinkle

A regime on how to keep a healthy mind in a healthy body, consisting of a yogic way of eating, fresh air and light exercise. - Summary by Ra…

Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks

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May Farinholt Jones

"The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story…

The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six Hundred Recipes for Meatless Dishes

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M. R. L. Sharpe

M. R. L. Sharpe, (Maud Russell Lorraine Carpenter) was Boston socialite and activist for animal rights and vegetarianism. These ethical co…

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