Medical
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen
Read by Pamela Nagami
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of t…
Aristotle's Masterpiece
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Pseudo-Aristotle
Aristotle's Masterpiece, also known as The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher, is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular…
Lectures on Tropical Diseases
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Patrick Manson
This short volume consists of the ten lectures which Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the Colonial Office, delivered in San Francisco …
Little Masterpieces of Science - Health and Healing
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George Iles
One of a series of books, "Little Masterpieces in Science" edited by George Iles, Health and Healing is a collection of articles w…
War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base
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Basil Hughes
One of the first volumes dedicated to systematized medical treatment of soldiers in modern warfare, including a chapter on specific care for…
The Natural History of Chocolate
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D. De Quelus and D. De Quelustranslated Byrichard Brookes
The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Exc…
Histology of the Blood
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Paul Ehrlich
This is a textbook on the science of blood and bloodwork by (1908) Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Should appeal to hematologists, phl…
Louis Pasteur
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Albert Keim
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur brought to t…
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister was born near London in 1827. He studied medicine at the University of London and pursued a career as a surgeon in Scotland. H…
The Bubonic Plague
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Rai Bahadur A. Mitra
Dr. Rai Bahadur A. Mitra who was the Chief Medical Officer in Kashmir presents a short treatise on the bubonic plague. The book ranges from …
A Surgeon In Arms
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Robert James Manion
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his me…
Radioisotopes in Medicine
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Earl W. Phelan
Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet published in 1966 as part of the Understanding the Atom series by the United States Atom…
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…
Aequanimitas and Other Addresses
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Sir William Osler
This book is a compilation of twenty-two addresses given by Sir William Osler in various settings. He spoke on the philosophical and moral f…
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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Sir William Osler
This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…
On chronic alcoholic intoxication : with an inquiry into the influence of the a…
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William Marcet
Physician William Marcet treated numerous cases of acute alcoholism (delirium tremens) and chronic alcoholism. He suggests gastrointestinal …
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache
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John Gregory Bourke
“Herewith I have the honor to submit a paper upon the paraphernalia of the medicine-men of the Apache and other tribes. Analogues have been …
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…